LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Local firefighters responded to three 'suspicious' fires within a span of five hours in the Hillview area early Monday morning.
Zoneton Fire Protection District said crews responded the string of fires began around midnight until 5 a.m.
Investigators haven't determined if the fires are connected, but a spokesperson said they are of "suspicious" origin.
"To have three in one night all of this caliber, to me and to command staff, that makes it suspicious until we can prove otherwise," Zoneton Deputy Chief Tracey Key said.
Hillview Police and Zoneton Fire toured the three locations collecting evidence Monday morning.
“They specialize in their areas, we specialize in ours and as a team we’ll solve this investigation just like any other," Detective Scott Barrow said. “We collected a few things that could be of evidentiary value. We don’t know if it will connect them to the other fires.”
The first of the three fires happened at Doors Etc., a glass installer on North Williams Lane, in Brooks. The second, at an auto yard on East Blue Lick Road, where two vehicles and a camper were burned.
The final fire happened a short distance away, at an abandoned building one Velva Road, which investigators said is likely a total loss.
At Doors Etc., owner Kemo Wallace said surveillance footage captured his box truck and a camper trailer being set on fire.
“I guess you have to pray for the people that does something like this because they have to be hurting some way," he said. "It would almost be better if they'd stolen something because you could kind of understand."
Wallace said there hadn't been any suspicious activity around his business in the past. He's thankful no one was hurt, and hopes the surveillance footage will lead police in the right direction.
“You have valleys and mountains in life and this happens to be a little valley," Wallace said.
There were no reports of an injuries at any of the three scenes, officials say.
Anyone with information on the fires are asked to call Fire Marshal Tracey Key at (502) 955-8076.
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