Despite eyewitness and camera evidence of suspected arson in the Greater Los Angeles fires, authorities have yet to rule it as the cause of the blaze. In one instance, a concerned resident showed firefighters video proof of arsonists setting fire to the city.
A man has been arrested in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles on suspicion of arson. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has yet to verify whether it is connected with the Kenneth Fire raging in the area. A man has been arrested on suspicion of ...
A homeless man zip-tied by concerned citizens after he was seen lighting fires on a Los Angeles street with a torch has yet to be charged with arson, Los Angeles cops said Friday — while stressing
The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested two individuals on Tuesday who admitted to setting fires outside of the wildfire zones.
Arson suspect arrested, LAPD says
An arson suspect arrested in Pacoima admitted he started a small fire that burned a tree "because he liked the smell of burning leaves," police said.
As of Friday, the official cause of the wildfires remained under investigation by officials, but LAPD's announcement marked the first time suspected arson was mentioned in connection to any of the ...
The suspect was detained near the Kenneth Fire, which the LAPD believes was intentionally set, a police official has said.
Two more people are behind bars for allegedly setting small fires in Los Angeles amid high fire-danger conditions and as crews continued efforts to fully contain a pair of destructive blazes.
It was initially reported as an arrest made on the suspicion of arson, with Sean Dinse of the LAPD’s Topanga Division telling a NewsNation reporter on Thursday night that the authorities believed someone had purposefully set the Kenneth Fire.
Two people were arrested for arson in separate incidents just outside the fire zone on Wednesday, according to the LAPD. In one incident, a citizen extinguished a fire in a tree and detained an arson suspect, police said. That suspect admitted to starting the fire because he "liked the smell of burning leaves," police said.
Wednesday, 12:25 p.m. PST The Hughes Fire grew to 3,407 acres, according to Cal Fire, with evacuation orders extending to the community of Castaic and evacuation warnings stretching to the northernmost parts of Santa Clarita, which had an estimated population of 224,028 in 2023.