Gather around, lemme tell you a story about what used to happen to people who used a natural disaster like these fires to commit crimes like looting...or worse. 

Back in 1900 Galveston Texas was hit by a massive hurricane.That Hurricane and the tidal wash that followed it killed 8,000+ people.  

Yes, you are reading that correctly. 

The 15 foot tidal surge that followed the storm ended up killing more people than the storm itself did. 

What made the aftermath even more horrific was that when Texas Rangers and others were looking for survivors in the city's extensive wreckage, over a dozen looters, some pretending to be relief workers, were caught in the act. 

Looters found despoiling the dead were summarily executed by the militia - stood against the nearest wall or pile of debris and shot without the hindrance of a trial. The same brutal justice was delivered to amateur photographers. “Word received from Galveston today indicates that Kodak fiends are being shot down like thieves. Two, it is stated, were killed yesterday while taking pictures of nude female bodies.”

— Dallas News, September 14, 1900.

Several of those caught by authorities were described in contemporary accounts as "Kodak fiends" that were interrupted in the act of taking pictures of dead women and girls they had stripped the clothes off of. 

All such looters and 'Kodak fiends' upon being caught with contraband or in the act of taking vile photographs were lined up against the nearest wall and summarily shot by firing squad. 

This was 125 years ago in Texas.

They caught THIRTY assholes SO FAR pretending to be police or firefighters just in the LA area in the last few days. 

How many didn't they catch? 

Are actually a better society now that people aren't all that afraid of getting caught looting today?