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Part-time firemen sometimes set fires to generate work for themselves, a new FAO report notes.

"They set fires to open the area for planting because it's much faster and easier," he said.

What sort of person, they asked again and again, would set fires to buildings filled with sleeping families?

People sometimes set fires to clear land — and the loss of some parts of a tropical forest to fire or clear-cutting can create a feedback effect.

This is true literally, in that park rangers set fires to prevent fires, actively managing forests, trying to produce not engineered virginity, but tended forests.

Where lightning had not done the job for them, they set fires to thin the forests—so grasslands and edible plants could flourish between the trees and attract grazing animals for hunting.

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Set fire to what?

The Germans set fire to the ghetto.

They'd set fire to things!

I set fire to its testicles".

Set fire to my tail.

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