firebug

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Synonyms for firebug

a criminal who illegally sets fire to property

a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain

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Cops are hunting the mindless firebugs who destroyed the popular Coatbridge outdoor sports centre at the weekend.
The same street was also targeted earlier this summer, when firebugs sparked flames in the same flats four times in less than 48 hours.
In January, firebugs set the former St Margaret's School alight, while in Nuneaton they have torched the former Bucksford Pub in Bucks Hill, and Poachers Pocket in Kingswood Road, in recent months.
Firebugs targeted two houses in the same Teesside street last night.
Now, two serial firebugs, both aged 13, who were responsible for many of the blazes, have been stopped in their tracks.
Firebugs gutted five buildings, wrecked a fence and damaged drains at the council-run campsite in Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
FIREBUGS may have targeted a house because they believed so-called 'Neighbour From Hell' Mags Haney lived there.
Fire chiefs combating a surge in arson attacks are to launch a new task force, with US-style powers, to trap firebugs.
It is believed the blaze, which also broke out at 6am, had been started by firebugs.
David and Mary Sharples were three minutes from death when firebugs torched their home as they slept.
FIREBUGS struck again at a derelict mansion at Leeds Road, Liversedge.
Despite these encouraging results, firefighters have once again been targeted by firebugs.
FIREBUGS set a caravan and a car alight in a Nuneaton street after they failed in their attempts to steal a 4x4 parked nearby, say police.
It is believed firebugs poured a flammable liquid through the letterbox of Paws For Thought in Erdington, before setting it alight.
And firebugs are blamed for breaking into the boarded-up Forge pub in the Albert Hill area of Darlington and setting it ablaze at about 9.45pm last night.