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The vast majority of wildfires in the United States are ignited by human sources — power lines, cigarette butts, machinery, or, in the case of one infamous recent fire, a gender reveal stunt.

In California, the Bear Fire, part of the North Complex Fire, burned more than 100,000 acres in 24 hours after igniting.

We know that even if California starts lighting prescribed fires at the rate we need to ignite them, our Septembers will be filled with smoke for the rest of our lives.

Now unusually strong winds are threatening to knock down power lines and ignite more wildfires, prompting the state’s largest utility to plan power cuts for more than 500,000 people.

Second, record-low interest rates ignited a historic boom in refinancing.

This regrettable action will, of course, ignite a racial gang war, leaving a heap of bodies in its wake.

The gold bugs and hard money types hated him because they believed the vast expansion in the money supply would ignite inflation.

El Zomor said his attempts to re-ignite talks between the army and the Brotherhood showed signs of progress.

Interactions on the beach ignite memories of her former lover.

A great work of fiction involves a certain frisson that occurs when its various components cohere and then ignite.

I tell you, from Lincolnshire to Sussex the country is like dry timber ready to ignite at a spark.

Steeped in petroleum, they might possibly ignite in a double-draught furnace, though I fancy they would put it out.

On Berlin itself, and the Mark of Brandenburg; there to collide, and ignite in a marvellous manner.

We purposed to ignite it with some dry grass, but as we only allowed ourselves one match that day, I trembled for the result.

He could thus stand a long way back out of harm's way and ignite the priming.