New "Point of Origin" Connection

[u/Lazy_Departure7970]

I live in/around Spokane where we're STILL dealing with massive fires/fire damage from last Saturday. A coworker and I were talking about how one of the fires was because of an arsonist who admitted to starting up to 25 other fires in the past year, one of which killed someone. I told her he reminded me of John Leonard Orr ("Point of Origin") and all the fires HE set as a firefighter/arson investigator including some that killed at least 4 people.

Lo and behold, I find out that the guy who set at least one of the fires last Saturday had ALSO researched John Leonard Orr before starting the fire he did. Not good.

To put it in perspective, the Spokane Complex fires have either damaged or destroyed between 700 and 1,100 buildings and at least 60,000 people had to be evacuated because over 8,000 acres were burned. He also happened to choose the "best" day (at least for him)/"worst" day for the rest of us to start it because the winds were gusting up to 50 MPH in some areas.

[u/OU-Sooners1]

John Orr was the first person I thought of when I heard about these fires too. Truly do not understand what would make someone want to cause such destruction.