[general_re]

She says in her biz, a person of that proclivity is called "an arsonist," or in more common parlance, "a fire bug."

Ahem. And in these parts, accidentally killing someone while doing such a thing would be called "criminally negligent homicide".

[Catspaw]

She was only addressing the fire in the wastebasket. That someone died from the fire is definitely a murder charge, whether it's 1st degree intentional to negligent homicide--and if it's a real accident, voluntary or involuntary manslaughter. It depends what the prosecutor decides to charge the individual in question.

And I'm from a city where an arson investigator was convicted of 1st degree intentional homicide by setting a fire in his ex-wife's house, but forget to vent the place so the fire went out for lack of oxygen. He still says he's innocent. His appeals have gone nowhere.