Overview
- Firefighters were first dispatched around 1:46 a.m. and then extinguished eight vehicle fires and a blaze at a multifamily townhouse in the Bywater.
- NOFD classified the occupied house fire at 3138-40 Dauphine Street as aggravated arson, and four people escaped without injuries.
- NOPD said detectives obtained surveillance of a person of interest and asked the public to help identify the individual, who has not been charged.
- Investigators reported no injuries to firefighters and said all nine fires were deliberately set across the Dauphine, Desire, and Montegut corridors.
- A neighbor described explosions and a methodical hour-long progression of blazes, and local TV video showed at least one car fully engulfed in flames.