arsonist
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He added: “The arsonist set the first fire, but the Fire Department proactively has a duty to do certain things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
Indeed, Mark Zuckerberg offering Instagram-specific screen-time reports and time limits has the whiff of an arsonist handing out firefighting tips.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
He became the arsonist who laid claim to being the heroic firefighter.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025
A would-be arsonist explains himself — his motive: boredom — as slashing guitars scrape against the mechanized thump of a Roland drum machine.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
On February 27, 1933, one month after Hitler’s appointment, a known Communist and arsonist set fire to the Reichstag, the parliamentary building.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
To prevent this, he says, we must “block the arsonists on both sides at a distance: those who set fire to people’s souls, the incendiaries of the mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Earlier this week, Muir rejected claims of no consequences for those who start rural fires and said arsonists could face prison in some cases.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
His government banned construction on land affected by the blazes, and pledged harsher penalties for arsonists.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
To do it, Orange County Fire Watch is betting on good Samaritans teaching the public how to prevent ignitions and keeping an eye out for potential culprits, from overheating e-bikes to arsonists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
These different features are then arranged so that a great variety of clergymen, murderers, senators, embezzlers, artists, dynamiters, humorists, arsonists, larcenists, poets, statesmen, base ball players, rinkists, pianists, capitalists, bigamists and sluggists are easily represented.
From Remarks by Bill Nye
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