One mother's letter describes how she taught her four-year-old to lay kindling and strike a match to start a fire.

卢瑟福说，“一位妈妈的信中写了她如何教四岁的孩子准备生火，划火柴点着火。”

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Then I bend at the waist, and with a strike of a match, I set the last prairie on fire.

接着，我弯下腰，划着火柴，点燃这片最后的草原。

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On August 18, 2011, a lightning strike in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness region of northeastern Minnesota sparked a forest fire.

2011年8月8日，明尼苏达州东北部的边界水域，科努地区，由于雷击引起了森林大火。

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Unions have called for a nationwide strike in September, against plans to make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.

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Israel retaliated with tank fire and an air strike, killing two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist.

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Israel responded with tank fire and a helicopter strike, killing two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist.

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Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The fact is we planned very fully to deal with these contingencies which are here now, and we have a system which in a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, a fire strike, is as robust as it could be.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

Yoshito Okubo was guilty of a bad miss early on before Tamada showed his strike partner the way, sliding in to fire home a right-wing cross from Makoto Hasebe in the 21st minute.

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