Ex-Firefighter Gets Six Months For Torching Home While Facing Foreclosure; Ordered To Pay $16K In Restitution

In Waupaca, Wisconsin, WSAU Radio 550 AM / 99.9 FM reports:

• A former firefighter will spend four years on probation, including six months in jail, for deliberately setting his house on fire in September 2005. A Waupaca County judge also ordered Chris Doering to pay court costs and more than $16,000 in restitution to the holder of the land contract and an insurance agency.

• A crime lab analysis found gasoline on Doering’s shoes and blue jeans and in a bedroom closet where he first noticed the fire. A special police dog also found evidence of an accelerant in the kitchen and dining room areas, where a burn pattern analysis showed the fire likely started.

• Doering admitted that he knew his house was in foreclosure and that he set the fire a day he was notified that it would be sold at a sheriff’s sale. Doering also submitted a claim for insurance proceeds shortly after the fire.

Source: Ex-firefighter sentenced for starting house fire.