Man arrested for starting 2 dumpster fires in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Fire Department says 18-year-old Alfred Sosa intentionally started dumpster fires adjacent 2 antithetic Fresno businesses. Sosa was arrested Monday and is facing a felony arson charge.

Late Sunday night, crews were called to the Valley Food store successful Central Fresno for a dumpster fire, which charred the backmost of the building.

Firefighters worked rapidly to support the flames from spreading wrong the store.

Investigators accidental the circumstances were akin to another dumpster fire little than a fractional mile away, past Friday morning.

That 1 astatine the historical Peerless gathering offers abstraction for entrepreneurs to bash originative work.

"It's hard not to beryllium angry," said Nader Assemi, co-owner of the Peerless Building.

Fresno Fire says Sosa is seen successful surveillance video mounting the occurrence and past walking away.

From different space of the footage, the fishy tin beryllium seen leaving the country conscionable arsenic firefighters arrive.

Investigators accidental a comparative of Sosa recognized him successful the surveillance footage and that helium lives successful the downtown area.

Fresno Fire Chief Billy Alcorn issued this statement: "Anyone mounting intentional fires successful our assemblage volition beryllium investigated, arrested, and prosecuted. Our firefighters enactment incredibly hard to respond to galore exigency services calls each time and intentionally acceptable fires person the imaginable of delaying their responses to those existent emergencies wrong our community. These acts volition not beryllium tolerated."

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