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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The co-author of a book on a deadly 1958 church-school fire was in jail on Tuesday, charged with setting a fire at another school, authorities said.

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David Cowan, who helped write an account of the blaze at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 95 pupils and nuns, was arrested on Thursday and charged with arson after a fire broke out in a storage building at St. Benedict's where he worked as a janitor.

"To Sleep With the Angels: The Story of a Fire" detailed the horrific fire and subsequent changes to national fire safety rules. Cowan also wrote "Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes That Shaped a City."

Cowan, 41, had been a firefighter at the suburban Bellwood, Illinois, department, but lost the job in 2003.

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Guess he needed more material to write about!