Help Wanted: Orphans Preferred — Earl Emerson

Fire Chief and acting sheriff Mac Fontana is used to trouble in the sleepy Seattle suburb of Staircase, Washington. But this time the heat is really on. All over town, firemen have been dying at an alarming rate--victims of an insidious maniac intent on burning the entire Staircase Volunteer Fire Department to the ground. And now Mac must put out the blaze single-handedly before his career--and his life--go up in flames.