Match Thrower Starts Blaze at Fresno Hotel
Associated Press
FRESNO —
Someone throwing packs of flaming matches out of a Holiday Inn hotel window in downtown Fresno early today started a fire that caused $43,000 damage, Fresno firefighters reported.
“The investigation is on-going at this time and it is definitely a felony crime,” said Fire Department Capt. Mike Collins. The matches set a plastic skylight on a canopy over the hotel’s eastern entrance ablaze.
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