The Bronx is burning agai...no wait. It's L.A.

**min0 lee** · 01-01-2012, 02:07 PM

Los Angeles arson attacks: Four more car fires set throughout L.A. on New Year’s Eve

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A wave of arson attacks continued to plague Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, despite efforts to combat the mysterious fires.

Authorities deployed hundreds of extra firefighters, cops and plainclothes officers throughout Tinseltown Saturday after dozens of cars were burned in parking areas around the city on Friday night and early Saturday morning.

Another four vehicles were set ablaze Saturday evening, authorities said. The first blaze broke out at a Hollywood car port at around 6 p.m. and was quickly extinguished by a crew of ten firefighters before it could spread beyond a single car.

Later, crews responded to a second fire at in a parking garage at the Hollywood and Highland Center, a massive entertainment complex in the heart of Hollywood that includes the Kodak Theater, home of the Oscars.

That fire was out by the time smoke eaters arrived, a spokesman told The Associated Press.

The last two fires broke out inside a car port in West Hollywood at around 9 p.m. and were quickly hosed down by firefighters before they spread, officials said.

No one was injured in any of the suspected attacks.

More than three dozen car fires have cropped up in parking structures, car ports and garages in areas all over the City of Angels since Thursday, causing upwards of $1 million in damages, according to local reports.

In some cases, the blazes have spread to apartments and homes, including one Hollywood Hills pad that was once occupied by The Doors frontman Jim Morrison.

Local officials called the spree the worst case of serial arson since rioters torched the city in 1992 in the wake of the Rodney King trial.

Investigators vowed to flood the streets with extra firefighters until the arsonist, or arsonists, were caught.

"We're pulling out all the stops," Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey told The Los Angeles Times. "We're hoping that the person or people responsible will be brought to swift and complete justice."

Extra firefighters were reporting to stations across Los Angeles County on New Year's Day, and investigators have set up a tip line and offered a hefty $35,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest, the Times reported.

Police said they were looking for a man who was driving a mid-1990s Lexus ES300, however police sources told the Times that investigators believe more than one person is responsible for the attacks.

Meanwhile, many Southland residents woke up on the first day of 2012 worried that the next few nights would bring more attacks from the fire-loving fiends.

"The scary part is being so vulnerable in the middle of the night," North Hollywood resident Carl Lybecker, 32, told the Times.

With News Wire Services

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**Imosted** · 01-01-2012, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

that girls face is fucking creepy,

**DOMS** · 01-01-2012, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by Imosted

that girls face is fucking creepy,

**min0 lee** · 01-03-2012, 11:04 AM

The German man busted as the suspected firebug who torched more than 50 cars in Los Angeles had a message for the cop who cuffed him Monday: "I hate America."

Harry Burkhart, 24, spoke the smear after he was yanked from his minivan near the Sunset Strip about 3 a.m. by a Beverly Hills real estate attorney who moonlights as a reserve sheriff's deputy, witnesses told LA Weekly.

Shervin Lalezary, who earns a $1 a year as a part-time crime fighter, made the stop after noticing the minivan with Canadian plates matched the one mentioned in a tip from federal officials.

Cops found fire starter sticks inside the van, police said.

Burkhart, who has lived in southern California for several years and was carrying travel papers from Chechnya, was booked for investigation of arson of an inhabited dwelling and was being held without bail, authorities said.

Fire sirens were quiet in the City of Angels on Monday night for the first time since Friday.

"Our long four-day nightmare is over," Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said.

Cops haven't said what drove the alleged Frankfurt firebug to set more than 50 fires across Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley — including one at the former home of late Doors frontman Jim Morrison and another at a garage near the Hollywood Walk of Fame — causing an estimated $3 million in damages.

But neighbors at Burkhart’s West Sunset Blvd. apartment complex said they believe the suspect could have been motivated by his mother's immigration woes.

The mother, whose name was not released, was scheduled to be deported, according to the Los Angeles Times.

At a recent immigration court hearing on her case, Burkhart erupted in a hate-filled, anti-American tirade, the Times reported.

An official from that case thought Burkhart resembled the ponytailed "person of interest" that appeared in a grainy surveillance tape that police released on Sunday, and federal officials told cops to keep an eye out for a blue Dodge Caravan, the Times reported.

Los Angeles police wouldn't comment on Burkhart's family matters.

"We are very confident in this arrest, but we have a long way to go," Police Chief Charlie Beck said.

The rash of fires left Southland residents on edge over the holiday weekend as hundreds of extra firefighters and cops swarmed the city on frenzied overnight patrols.

Most of the blazes were started in cars or carports, although some jumped to neighboring apartments and houses, forcing residents from their homes.

One firefighter suffered minor injuries after a fall from a ladder. No one else was hurt.

Although police said they were certain they had their man, authorities urged residents to remain alert.

"We're not resting, and we're not stopping" police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. "If you have lights in your carport area, keep them on tonight."

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**IronAddict** · 01-03-2012, 11:14 AM

I was about to say they caught this dude, but I had no idea he hated Amerika. So now you're gonna love the prison system! You should'a just took your ass back to germany, since it's soo much better over there.

Besides, shiite like this is only cool after the lakers or dodgers win a champioship.

**PappyMason** · 01-03-2012, 11:17 AM

what an asshole

**DOMS** · 01-03-2012, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by PappyMason

what an asshole

That asshole's asshole is going to get a lot of action in the near future.

**IronAddict** · 01-03-2012, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

That asshole's asshole is going to get a lot of action in the near future.

Hell yeah, after the sista's get a hold of him his assholes gonna be whistling this tune....

**maniclion** · 01-03-2012, 06:44 PM

He hates America yet he's pissed that his mother is being deported?

Simon says WTF?

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