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Firefighters knock down two suspicious fires in apartment complexes on the Central Coast

Arson investigators are looking into a pair of suspicious fires which occured early Sunday morning at apartment complexes in Santa Maria.
Santa Maria Fire Department
Arson investigators are looking into a pair of suspicious fires which occured early Sunday morning at apartment complexes in Santa Maria.

No one hurt in blazes, but at least one vehicle destroyed.

Firefighters extinguished two fires at Central Coast apartment complexes, which they believe were intentionally set.

The fires were reported just before 3 a.m. Sunday in Santa Maria. One was at an apartment complex on Bunny Avenue, the other was on Biscayne Street. Both fires were in carports.

Santa Maria firefighters stopped both blazes before they reached any of the apartment units, but at least one vehicle was destroyed.

Fire investigators believe the two cases are related. They are now trying to determine if they're connected to a string of apartment complex carport fires last May and June, which destroyed some vehicles.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.