3 fires in San Francisco’s Castro may link to serial arsonist
rson investigators in San Francisco are looking into whether three early morning fires Monday in the Castro are related to a series of intentional blazes over the past few months in the neighborhood.
The first fire was reported just before 4 a.m. near 19th and Castro streets. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene and extinguished flames that burned debris in the bed of a pickup truck and spread to the cab, destroying the vehicle.
Half an hour later and two blocks away, two fires were set across the street from each other near 18th and Hartford streets.
Fire crews squelched the more serious fire that burned the facade of a home, scorched the front door and caused an estimated $20,000 in damage, officials said. Across the street, firefighters quickly contained the other fire, which burned outside a home.
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