NEW YORK — Police are investigating a fifth attack on a Long Island home hit by a Molotov cocktail Sunday night to see if it is linked to the four similar attacks in Queens, according to the Daily News. The four arson attacks that occurred over two hours Sunday night are believed to be possible [...]
Haight-Ashbury three-alarm fire injures 1
Jan. 3 Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO — The cause of a three-alarm fire on Masonic Ave. in San Francisco is still unknown as police continue to investigate. NBC Bay Area reports that police are treating the fire as a crime scene until they determine the fire’s cause, as the initial emergency call reporting the blaze was made by a [...]
Prosecutor: Argument over money led to fatal Chelsea fire
Jan. 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
A Chelsea woman was held without bail after her arraignment on murder and arson charges in the wake of the Christmas Eve house fire that killed a 20-year-old living in another apartment in the house. Melissa Pfeiffer, 26, and her boyfriend lived at 265 Spruce St., in a lower level apartment. The fire killed Crystal [...]
Chelsea Christmas Eve fire ruled arson, murder
Jan. 7, 2011 1 Comment
State Police attached to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office and Chelsea Police detectives yesterday arrested a Chelsea woman in connection with the fatal Christmas Eve fire in Chelsea. Melissa Pfeiffer, 26, will be arraigned today in Chelsea District Court, charged with arson and murder in setting the fire that killed 20-year-old Crystal [...]
Taunton City Hall fire ruled Arson
Jan. 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
Fire investigators announced Thursday that the August 17, 2010 fire that damaged Taunton CIty Hall was arson. “This is an ongoing criminal investigation by State Police assigned to the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Taunton Fire Department and the Taunton Police Department,” said State [...]
Wyoming hotel fire ruled arson
Sept. 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Denver Field Division Special Agent in Charge Marvin Richardson, together with Mayor Rick Kaysen, Cheyenne, Wyo. Fire Chief Jim Martin and Police Chief Brian Kozak, announced Thursday that a September 15 blaze at the Hitching Post Inn, a Cheyenne hotel, was inentially set. No additional details on [...]
Arrest made in Northampton arson spree
Jan. 5, 2010 Leave a Comment
Police have made an arrest in at least one of the fires set during a December 27 arson spree that left an elderly man and his son dead. According to the Associated Press, Massachusetts Northwest District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel said in a statement that 25-year-old Anthony P. Baye was arrested at about 8 p.m. yesterday, [...]
Science, fire come together at ATF lab
Jan. 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
How do you investigate arson? By burning something, of course.
$10k in rewards for ATF-probed arsons in Jamaica Plain
April 2, 2009 Leave a Comment
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Boston Field Division, announced Wednesday that they are offering $5,000 added to the existing $5,000 reward set up by an insurance organization for the arrest of a suspect or suspects responsible for three suspicious Jamaica Plain fires. According to the ATF, a Feb. 7 fire at [...]
