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PHILADELPHIA — Authorities have charged the owner of a Fairhill pizza shop with lying to federal investigators and setting his own business ablaze, triggering a three-story building collapse that killed a 27-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, according to charging documents unsealed Tuesday. Authorities allege that Al-Ashraf Khalil and another individual entered the basement doors of Star Pizza at 300 W. Indiana Street shortly before 1:30 a.m. on June 18 and started a fire in the restaurant kitchen, and later lied to investigators about his whereabouts that night. Khalil, 28, wa…