Overview
- Fire crews tackled two burning vehicles on Cottaweg overnight Friday in the Billstedt district.
- The blaze was extinguished in a little over an hour, according to police and fire officials.
- Cottaweg was closed to traffic from 12:42 a.m. to 1:45 a.m. during the response.
- Officers arrested a 34-year-old man with no fixed address near the scene, and police reported he was heavily intoxicated.
- Investigators are looking into possible links to earlier nighttime fires on the same street, where two cars and nearby paper containers burned this week.