Originally Posted by
Asturias56
IIRC the Theatre in Venice burn't down twice in a few years - truly tragic!
Unknown persons tried to burn down a listed (Albeit just the medieval fireplace), unused building in my village twice, before finally succeeding on the third attempt. On each occasion when I asked the fire officer how it had started he said the fire was "set",
He also said that fire crews were regularly called out to unexplainable spontaneous combustion of properties for which change of use, or planning permission had been denied by the local council.
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