[browardchad]

I heard it mentioned on the Fox Report last night that the motive might be more jobs, since the Apaches are routinely hired as forest firefighters. Pretty despicable if true.

[VOA]

...the motive might be more jobs, since the Apaches are routinely hired as forest firefighters.

Reminds me of a story I heard (on NPR, believe it or not) about a guy who worked summers
during college with the roads department in a state in the upper Midwest.

He noticed that one of the old, career workers performed a ritual each time his
team had patched another hole in the pavement of another county road.

The senior worker would walk a couple hundred feet from the back of the truck and
toss a cup of liquid on the roadway, then stroll back to the truck and the team would
drive to their next patching job.

Only later did the "college kid" realize that the supervisor was tossing a cup of
diesel/gasoline that would accelerate the erosion of the pavement and...after
the cycle of a few summers and winters, their skills would be required to patch a new
hole in the road.

[Madame Dufarge]

I heard it mentioned on the Fox Report last night that the motive might be more jobs, since the Apaches are routinely hired as forest firefighters. Pretty despicable if true.

There was an incident in central Maine a couple of years ago where a volunteer firefighter admitted to committing arson so that she could get paid her $10/hr for putting out the fire.

Hey, times were tough.

[LenS]

the motive might be more jobs, since the Apaches are routinely hired as forest firefighters.

If true, then the people involved must be brain damaged since lumber is the biggest economic resource for the Apaches. The current fires have destroyed millions of dollars in lumber and will take decades to replace. But then that's why the Apaches asked the Feds to investigate the arsons.