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Fire setting

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(Mining) the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; - now generally superseded by the use of explosives.

See also: Fire



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In an extremely dangerous fire setting, such complexities shouldn't add up to paralysis by analysis, and I believe that this project will eventually succeed.
We never would have been able to accommodate the new business without it," he chuckles in noting the irony of a fire setting the stage for rapid growth when many figured it would spell the end of the business.
``There hasn't been a decrease,'' said Susan Jensen, coordinator of the LAFD's Stop Adolescent Fire Setting with Education program.
 
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