There have been several cases where firefighters have started fires here in the States too. I have no doubt that happens.
What I doubt is the story coming from the moniker "Bryce" simply because of the source. I'll leave it at that.
But here is a clue to the fabrication. Bryce claims he was in an area of our state where wildfires are an annual problem when he overheard the firefighters talking in public about how they would let fires rage. This is a rugged back country high in the Cascade Mountains, most of it covered by the 4 million acre Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. A huge sparsely populated area of old growth forests. Again, the National Forest area alone is 4,000,000 acres - lots of land.
Now Bryce wants us to believe that he heard this conversation:
"never put them out when they are an acre!... what are you crazy? We let that go a few more days and we have months of overtime..."
I find that pretty funny. "Wait till it grows to an acre" ??? Most fires wouldn't even be visible in that vast wilderness until they involve many acres. We've had 3 firefighters die in the past week here, and each year several firefighters die while fighting these monstrous fires. The conversation Bryce claims to have heard simply does not have a ring of truth to it.
What does three firefighters dying have to do with anything? Your reasoning is VERY flawed. It's got more truth than you'll know. You need to get your head out of the dirt... I'll 'leave it at that".