Police look for leads in string of fires

Suspicious fires spark investigation CTV Kitchener: Three fires in 24 hours have authorities looking for a link. Priya Mann explains

Three fires, all within blocks of each other, were set in Cambridge within 24 hours.  All are considered suspicious and Waterloo Regional Police think they could be linked.  The fires were reported between Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning.

The first target was a garbage bin behind Shoppers Drug Mart in west Cambridge, just before 4pm on Sunday.  Damage is estimated at $1000.

Waterloo Regional Police spokeperson Olaf Heinzel says the fire needed to be extinguished quickly.  “The one by the dumpster did spread to the dry leaves that were around it.  We had high winds that contributed to that as well.”

A few blocks away, in the 100 block of Grand Avenue South, some curbside trash was reportedly set on fire.

20 minutes later there were reports of another fire, this time on Crombie Street.  A red GMC van was ignited.  Damage is pegged at $3000 to the van.

“Based on the information we’ve gathered from the scene so far, all three scenes, it would suggest perhaps that they were intentionally set”, says Heinzel.

Police are asking for anyone who may have seen the fires to call south division or Crimestoppers.