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The firefighter who participated in the arson was also a member of the emergency service, as well as one of his accomplices.

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  1. noun The crime of maliciously, voluntarily, and willfully setting fire to the building, buildings, or other property of another or of burning one's own property for an improper purpose, as to collect insurance.

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  • However, officials are not saying whether arson is a possibility. —  WTVY - HomePage - Headlines
  • The firefighter who participated in the arson was also a member of the emergency service, as well as one of his accomplices. —  Iceland Review
  • Mason was 46 years old when arrested in March 2008 for the arson, and Fultz and Burthwick were both 27 years old when arrested. —  State News Top Stories
  • Program will bring together the nation's foremost scientific and legal experts to focus on those developments in fields such as arson, DNA, fingerprints, eyewitness identification, false confessions, pathology, firearms identification, and investigating crime labs. —  Capital Defense Weekly
  • Steven Point calls case 'sad' after police charge 13-year-old with arson, theft, and breaking and entering —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin ārsiō, ārsiōn-, from Latin ārsus, past participle of ārdēre, to burn; see as- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French arson, arsoun, arsun (as if from L. * arsio, *arsion-), a burning, from arder, ardoir (past participle ars), burn, from Latin ardere (past participle arsus), burn: see ardent.
  2. from Middle English arsoun, arsun, from Old French arcun, arzon, archon, modern F. arçon = Spanish arzon = Portuguese arção = Italian arcione, from Middle Latin arcio(n-), also arco (n-), and corruptly arctio(n-), a saddle-bow, from Latin arcus, a bow: see arc, arch.
 

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