Arsonist sentenced to 25 years

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A D.C. man was sentenced to 25 years in prison in prison for setting a series of house fires, inclucing one that seriously injured four firefighters.

Maurice Dews, 27, pleaded guilty in November to five counts of arson, and four counts of aggravated assault while armed stemming from a April 2011 fire that critically injured a D.C. firefighter and seriously injured three others, prosecutors said.

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