Tim Sheehy, who made his fortune in aerial firefighting, has argued that "a lot" of wildland firefighters want to let infernos burn in order to rack up overtime pay.
Because this is what he would do in that situation. This politician would cheat and steal and that’s all he knows, so, of course, he thinks everyone else is the same way as him.
lets be honest. there's a high likelihood, that if he were a firefighter, he'd be setting the fire and then extorting more cash to put it out, while everything burned.