Siege Equipment is a line of 25mm miniatures from ordinary catapults and ballistas to obscure items like the crow and fire raiser.
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The parish church of St Andrew was rebuilt in the 1960s after a fire raiser had burnt it. There is an east window by Patrick Reyntiens, 1963.Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South.
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The dabqaad, a popular censer in Somalia and Djibouti. The dabqaad (Somali for "fire raiser"), also known as unsi or girgire, is an incense burner, or censer. With either one or two handles, it is commonly used in Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
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He says he will kill the twins if they find "the fire-raiser". Rachel is alarmed and reaches out to Theo but, terrified of getting close to anyone since his mother’s death, he pushes her away and sets out alone to find the fireraiser – the man he saw on the mountain top...
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Pyromania was thought in the 1800s to be a concept involved with moral insanity and moral treatment, but had not been categorized under impulse control disorders. Pyromania is one of the four recognized types of arson, alongside burning for profit, to cover up an act of crime and for revenge. Pyromania is the second most common type of arson. Common synonyms for pyromaniacs in colloquial English include firebug (US) and fire raiser (UK), but these also refer to arsonists.
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McDonald made her debut as a television director and producer on the final series of Gliding On. She also directed episodes of Close to Home, Open House and Country GP. McDonald produced the award-winning kidult television series The Fire-Raiser, written by Maurice Gee, and was the creator and producer of the 1987 series Peppermint Twist. She also produced another series written by Maurice Gee, The Champion, in 1989. Other programmes produced by McDonald include the television adaptations of the 1997 play Nga Wahine by Riwia Brown, and Joyful and Triumphant by Robert Lord.
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In 1970 McDonald won the Hollywood Bowl radio award for best voice commercial. She was twice named best actress at the Feltex Awards, in 1980 and 1984, for her roles in Pioneer Women and It's Your Child, respectively. In 1989, she won the best drama and best children's programme trophies for The Fire-Raiser at the GOFTA awards, and also won an Australian Pater Award for producer of the best drama series for the same show. McDonald was a nominated finalist for Face Value – Her New Life at the Banff and New York Television Festivals. In the 2007 Queen’s Birthday Honours, McDonald was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to entertainment.
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For several years in the 1980s, Campbell ran Television New Zealand's in-house Drama Department Script Unit, editing over 100 hours of television drama. Some of Campbell script editing credits include New Zealand television shows and feature films such as Marlin Bay (1992-94), Mirror, Mirror (1995), Bread and Roses (1993), Erua (1988), Maurice Gee's The Fire Raiser (1986), and the award-winning Erebus: the Aftermath, which was written by Greg McGee. In 1988, she departed TVNZ to forge an independent career in television and film as a writer, script consultant, and development executive. Campbell made a break into screen producing with the Banff Television Festival nominee for best drama, Swimming Lessons in 1995, written by Simon Wilson and directed by Steve LaHood.
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