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Twelve-year-old "Brandon" has always loved SpongeBob SquarePants and putting together map puzzles, but has an even greater fascination with fire.
“When you look at a match and strike it against the box and you get fire and your like how does that work?,” says “Brandon”.
“It’s so mind boggling.”
He started his first fire in the kitchen at just two years old, something his mom thought was just a phase.
“He took the stepping stool and put it up to the stove, turned the stove on, and took thee paper plate he ate out of and burnt it.”
Last year “Brandon” set a diaper changing table on fire at a MacDonald’s. Months later he lit a toilet paper dispenser on fire at a medical clinic.
The 12-year-old says he liked starting fires in bathrooms because he felt that he could control the fire with water nearby.
While on house arrest, "Brandon" enrolled in the Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Program.
The goal is to teach fire setters to become fire safety advocates through a class for kids and teens under 18. About 100 kids participate in the program every year and Capt. David Mann says they have over a 90 percent success rate.
Source: WOWT