WATCH: Authorities are looking for the public’s help after five fires were set in Victoria and Saanich within two weeks.
Authorities are looking for the public’s help after five fires were set in Victoria and Saanich within two weeks.
Police believe them to be intentionally set.
On Sunday night, firefighters were called to two fires in Victoria about half an hour apart.
One happened at 732 Princess Avenue at 11:23 p.m. at a metal garbage dumpster near a building. Firefighters extinguished the fire with fire hoses.
The other fire occurred behind the Yates Street Parkade at 11:56 p.m. in a plastic dumpster. It was reported by a cleaning crew working in a nearby building. Irrigation pipes attached to an adjacent building at 535 Yates Street were melted by the heat.
The plastic dumpster was completely destroyed and the metal dumpster was damaged by heat.
Last month, on Feb. 22, Saanich police say a chair was set ablaze next to the Staples on Tolmie Avenue.
Then, early the next morning on Feb. 23, two more fires were set in dumpsters, one behind the Save-on-Foods on Blanshard Street and another across the street at 894 Vernon Aveue.
Police say there is no indication so far that those three fires were related.
Calvin To
