Or you have the Volunteer firemen in places like Cali setting huge fires so they an go fight it and it burns out 100s of people, or the "eco warriors" in Australia that start giant fires, for the most part a lot of people are idiots and trash.
that sounds not 100% accurate to me, which means nothing really as I have been wrong enough of the time that I suggest taking my opinions with a grain of salt
. I know that firefighters can set "controlled" blazes to remove fuel, because we spent decades fighting every fire and well that turned out not to be the best idea as it leaves even more fuel for a bigger fire. Not disagreeing by the way just saying that my first bet (bet is a very key to what I am saying) is something like that happened and it went out of hand. Someone along the way misunderstood the concept that they were trying to fight fires and starting smaller ones for practical intentions and took it to mean we're bored lets make a fire so we have something to do. The one thing that makes does sound plausible though to me is that some volunteer firefighters are prisoners who have been well behaved, I could see a few of those guys setting fires so they don't have to go back to prison so soon. Who knows it's a pretty big and weird world.
As far as Australia goes and what people do there? I got no clue. There are always people who do more to damage their cause by being terrible, so to my mind that does sound really plausible.