setting fire

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Amir Ali Mirjafari was accused of setting fire to the Gholhak Grand Mosque and also of working with the Israeli espionage agency Mossad, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

A second man was arrested in the Larissa area in central Greece, also for allegedly deliberately setting fire to dried vegetation.

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2023

However, a key barrier to purposely setting fire to forest vegetation has been the inability to obtain insurance coverage for burn operations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2023

In the John Lewis advert, Excitable Edgar is seen accidentally melting a child's snowman, setting fire to Christmas decorations, and burning through an ice rink, creating a hole.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

‘Now don’t you go setting fire to nothing,” she says.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood