WSU: Fires at student community centers might be arson
May 26, 2012, 10:03 AM | Updated: 11:15 am
For the second time in a week a suspicious fire has destroyed a building on Washington State University’s Pullman campus.
Pullman Fire Chief, Scott LaVielle, says this might be a pattern and that the student community building fires might be the product of an arsonist.
LaVielle says that he thinks someone burned the community buildings on purpose because of how quickly the buildings burned and because of the extensive damage.
Only student buildings owned by WSU have been targeted and no other buildings in the area have had fires in the past few weeks.
Fire investigators say the first community building was burned on Tuesday May 22nd. Another fire burned a similiar building just this morning.
No one was hurt in either of the fires, but the Pullman Fire Department says both look suspicious. Investigators will try to determine whether or not both fires were deliberate and whether they were caused by the same person.
This is an ongoing investigation and more information will be posted as soon as it develops.
Listen to Kim Shepard’s interview with Pullman Fire Chief Scott LaVielle
