Fifteen volunteer firefighters were today (August 7) arrested in Sicily for allegedly starting fires to earn commission from putting them out.
Members of the response team in the southeastern town of Ragusa also purportedly made fake emergency calls to earn a stipend for responding to them.
The volunteers either made the calls from their own phones or asked family members to report the fires.
They received a 10-euro hourly rate for going out to deal with the emergencies.
Suspicions were rais…
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