The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.
If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
In a disastrous fire in President [Ronald] Reagan's library both books were destroyed.
A similar joke involving Judge G. Harold Carswell was popular in 1970. See Roman Hruska
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.
The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.
I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.