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John Orr bagged his first pyromaniac when a landlord reported a series of small fires in an apartment complex. On the last one a “bystander” shouted a warning to residents and escorted some of them out before the engine company arrived. He was the same guy who had recently spotted a purse snatching and captured the thief after a foot pursuit. John immediately suspected the bystander hero. He wrote, “This guy sounded like me. He even looked like me right down to the mustache.” Then the hero was a bystander once too often and tried fighting a fire with a garden hose, but got overcome by smoke and ended up in an ER with an IV in his arm. He had to give his address of his employer for the hospital records, and he did, but the address belonged to the Glendale Police Department, a clue to the hospital staff the guy might just be a head case.