http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060109/ap_on_fe_st/mouse_fire
"Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.

"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mares said from a motel room Saturday.

Village Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.

No was hurt inside, but the home and everything in it was destroyed."

Correction:
"The story says that the mouse caught fire, but it ran out of the bonfire back into the house, setting fire to a curtain. Mares indicates that this part is untrue. However, the bonfire did spread to the wooden house, which was completely destroyed as a result according to local fire officials."
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Story_of_mouse_burning_down_house_proven_false