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Last month s decision by a metro-east fire district board to replace its fire chief with a man convicted of arson in 1998 made national news and kicked off a lively
Simmons was accused in 1998 of setting fire to a vacant home and, in a separate incident, lighting toilet paper and ceiling tiles in the basement of Dupo Senior High School, where he was a student.<br/>