DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County firefighters responded to several grass fires early Monday morning.
Fire investigators at the scene told Channel 2’s Darryn Moore during Channel 2 Action News This Morning that they believe the fires may be acts of arson.
Channel 2’s Tom Regan has since now learned that a man is in custody and being questioned. No charges have been filed at this time.
The latest on the fire investigation on Channel 2 Action News starting at 4:00 p.m.
One fire ignited in the wood line at the back of the Village at the Creek Apartments on North Indiana Creek Drive. It also got close to a man’s home that sits on the complex.
“All the sudden, I see the whole back yard there is on fire,” Larry Cherry said.
Crews also had to dose a smaller fire near a mosque down the road. And another fire happened along Memorial College Ave near James R. Hallford Stadium.
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DeKalb firefighters responded to another brush fire last week. Channel 2’s Darryn Moore reported live on Channel 2 Action News This Morning starting at 4:30 a.m. from a fire on Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
The extreme drought conditions and fire danger across the state have fire departments on high alert.
“It doesn’t take much for a small fire to become a big fire. And that big fire to become a bigger fire,” DeKalb County Fire Battalion Chief Steven Vickery said on Thursday.
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