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Hot news, so to speak, as featured in this week's Washington City Paper: 'Last June, an investigator with the Prince George's County Fire/Emergency Medical Services Department noticed some similarities between about a half-dozen recent arsons in the area. Someone was setting fire to residential homes, between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., using an accelerant. In some cases, the arsonist set the fire near a doorway where a victim might try to escape. As they became more certain of the links, P.G. investigators started to wonder if the problem might extend beyond the county. They shared their findings with D.C. fire officials, and by the end of June, the two departments jointly notified the press that a serial arsonist had set at least four residential fires in the metro area. An additional 15 fires, they said, appeared alike in nature. Investigators would soon add other recent arsons to the list, bringing the total number of similar fires to more than two dozen, some stretching as far back as March. One of the suspicious fires killed 86-year-old Lou Edna Jones in her Evarts Street NE home. More fires were set during the fall and winter, pushing the list to its current dimensions—35 arsons, 14 of them conclusively linked.'
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