In a separate hearing, Joshua S. Demmitt, 18, said he started a blaze a month later at a farm building at Brigham Young University in Provo.
A judge has dismissed manslaughter charges against a homeless couple who the police said started a blaze that killed six firefighters in Worcester, Mass., last year.
One firebomb started a blaze, destroying a barn and about 250 tons of hay and causing a total of about $80,000 in damage.
A sushi chef has been arrested after a soy sauce container he had filled with gasoline ignited at a restaurant close to Sutton Place in Manhattan, starting a blaze that severely injured three people.
Vandals, milk thieves, a drunken neighbour, spontaneous combustion, even (though unlikely) the O'Learys' legendary cow any could have started a blaze there that roared out of control in minutes.
As crews at Pier 88 in New York raced to convert the ship for war duty, a spark from an acetylene torch started a blaze in a stack of life vests, and the flames spread "like fire in dry grass," according to Harvey Ardman's book "Normandie: Her Life and Times".
In particular, if you know "The Postman Always Rings Twice," in either version, or Luchino Visconti's "Ossessione," or the James M. Cain novel from which the three movies sprang, the shape of the tale, in which a drifter enters a dry marriage and starts a blaze, might feel all too familiar.
In New Mexico, $1 billion in private property was destroyed last May when "backfires", deliberately set by firefighters to remove dry underbrush, started a blaze that nearly overran the Los Alamos National Laboratory.Destructive wildfires have become a feature of America's west, and the trend is worsening.
An Australian man has been sentenced to 17 years and nine months in jail for starting a blaze that killed 10 people.
He also set fire to an overhead canopy at the Palmerston Cafe in nearby Glasgow Street and was also responsible for starting a blaze in a car outside the Benvenuto restaurant on Eastfield Road.
