TX Firefighter Guilty of Burning His Own Station, Twice

    Sept. 22, 2018
    A 24-year-old Greenwood, TX, firefighter caused more than $2 million in damages after setting nine fires, burning a fire station, a business and a church.

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    A Greenwood, TX, volunteer firefighter pleaded guilty to arson after a spree that included setting fire to his own station twice.

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    According to television station KWES 9, Alan Alton Self, 24, caused more than $2 million in damage after setting several fire between December 2017 and March of this year. He set fire to Trinity Pallets three times, a mobile home, a water truck and an abandoned home before burning down the Valley View Baptist Church for a total of nine fires.

    He was sentenced to 18 years of confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the church fire and 10 years for each of the eight other fires all to run concurrently, according to the television station. He must serve at least one quarter of the sentence before any consideration of parole is made. 

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