Your OP implies that your friend and his brother are adults. If so, I believe the brother has problems, and you'd be wise to avoid him.
It's not unusual for pre-adolescent and teenage boys to be fascinated by fire, but this is usually no more than one of those phases. Maybe the brother will continue to limit himself to setting his own property on fire, but it's possible he'll start looking for bigger thrills. And you're right about the possibility of his mattress fires getting out of hand. He says it's about the smell, but it's possible it's also about the thrill of the danger. If that's so, then it would be natural for him to progress to taking more and more risks, and he could one day find himself with a fire he can't put out with just a glass of water.
At the very least, your friend should buy a smoke detector so he gets some warning if his brother's games should ever set the place on fire.
You might want to have a read of the following. If it rings any bells with you, then you might consider passing it on to your friend.
My friend's brother is 40, my friend is 42, they're living together cause neither of them can afford to live alone right now, I don't think my friend's brother should be living alone with what he's doing. From what I know, he's doing it more from the smell than the thrill, he's loving the smell of the burning polyurethane, which is weird, and what he's doing is potentially dangerous.
I don't know what sort of help is available where you live for people with dangerous impulses such as this, but your friend should be looking into this if he can't get his brother to behave more responsibly.
Friend's brother sets fires to mattress
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Your OP implies that your friend and his brother are adults. If so, I believe the brother has problems, and you'd be wise to avoid him.
It's not unusual for pre-adolescent and teenage boys to be fascinated by fire, but this is usually no more than one of those phases. Maybe the brother will continue to limit himself to setting his own property on fire, but it's possible he'll start looking for bigger thrills. And you're right about the possibility of his mattress fires getting out of hand. He says it's about the smell, but it's possible it's also about the thrill of the danger. If that's so, then it would be natural for him to progress to taking more and more risks, and he could one day find himself with a fire he can't put out with just a glass of water.
At the very least, your friend should buy a smoke detector so he gets some warning if his brother's games should ever set the place on fire.
You might want to have a read of the following. If it rings any bells with you, then you might consider passing it on to your friend.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/conditions/pyromania
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The fumes are probably toxic.
He's weird and damn stupid.
"...polyurethanes form carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and other toxic products on decomposition and combustion."
https://firesciencereviews.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40038-016-0012-3
I don't know what sort of help is available where you live for people with dangerous impulses such as this, but your friend should be looking into this if he can't get his brother to behave more responsibly.