Arson in Indy?

[Barbecue]

What's going on with this? Any ideas?
10 early morning fires near downtown Indianapolis under investigation; one dead

 

[vitamink]

about 1 every year or two the city will have a serial arsonist it seems. A lot of times though it's just neighbors getting sick of all the abandoned houses/crack houses.

 

[E5RANGER375]

i saw the news today and wondered the same. very sad.

 

[ATOMonkey]

It could be just about any reason.

Kudos for the IFD for getting all of them under control quickly.

 

[NewsShooter]

I went to 8 of the 10 fires from midnight - 7am. It got so bad that the one @ Meridian/Morris got set while FOX59 and us were 150yards away at Meridian/Kansas where one had been set an hour earlier doing our live reports.

IFD 7 got called out to 7 of them... which I can't imagine how exhausted they were after the 3rd or 4th. I've seen countless fire departments work, I can say without hesitation that IFD are the best I've seen. Those guys don't mess around. 5 minutes and they move on. Hope they all enjoy their days off...

 

[GREEN607]

Insane!

Now...... when they get caught, they'll be facing First Degree Manslaughter charges, if not Murder..... on top of multiple Arson counts.

What is the matter with people!?

 

[wrigleycub]

Its a gang in the fountain square area. They usually do this at least a couple times a year. Usually, they just torch garages. Looks like they are starting to step things up a bit. A few months ago there was literature put out to all large city fire dept by the NFA alerting fire fighters this is becoming a new trend with gangs. Started out in Detroit many years ago. Detroit battles around 500 arson fires a month. I've seen video where one street had 87 houses on fire at one time (in the D).