FIREFIGHTER SETS FIRE SO HE CAN FIGHT FIRE

A teenage volunteer firefighter set fire to a duplex where he once lived because he wanted to respond to a fire call. Authorities say 18-year-old Patrick Gillis admitted putting a lighter and some pieces of paper in a microwave in an unoccupied building, then leaving it to burn, in the town of Brackenridge, north of Pittsburgh. The fire was reported around 4 p.m. Monday. Witnesses said they saw Gillis in the area just before the fire broke out, then saw him return as one of the firefighters battling the blaze. No injuries were reported.
* The one kid who isn’t happy just sitting around playing video games, and he does this.
* “It appears this fire, in the building where our own Patrick Gillis used to live, started in this microwave containing that lighter Patrick Gillis is always carrying around.”
* Flaming idiot.
* This wouldn’t have happened if they’d let him take the fire truck around the block a couple of times.