The Fire Departments of Tassley, Virginia - Firefighting 101

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Jeff Bell was the fire chief of a small volunteer fire department in Tassley, Virginia. He says for most of that year, it was business as usual. But then they have three in a row in one night. The next few months, there would be even more fires,. It was all anyone could talk about an acama. This is criminal.

On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, just hours later, a second fire was reported. Then a third. Over the next few months, there would be a lot more fires—nearly 90 in all. It was all anyone could talk about in Accomack. Someone was burning down the entire county.

Monica Hesse's book is American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land.

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