
In the good old days the security guard would start a small fire, "discover it", put it out & become the hero. Mamy nuildings have been lost when the small fire got out of hand.
I fired a person who worked for me who I strongly suspected of doing this. (They did not get out of hand). He was replacing someone who was on vacation. He needed a job really bad. He was begging me to find him a full time position. The last night of his week he discovered & put out 2 fires in 2 washrooms. It was one of the hotels out by the airport. The 2 public washrooms are never used in the middle of the night. People do not walk into the hotel which is in an industrial park overnight. One of the entrances was covered by a camera. No one went down to the washroom. I could not prove this guy did it but I am 99.9% sure he did. I fired him because when he called me to report what happened I ordered him to do continuous patrols in case the suspect was still in the hotel. I watched the video from the front desk camera the next day & saw that he spent most of his night talking with the Night Auditor.
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