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