See this headline: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE4DD153DE633A25752C1A9679D94669ED7CF

And this item:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p177_Wainwright.html, at the start of paragraph 7: "Van der Lubbe admitted he had fired the building."

That noted, it may be a more specialized or old-fashioned usage than I thought. "Torching" is a lot more vivid.
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