LONG BEACH, Calif.—A man was arrested Dec. 8 on suspicion of setting multiple American Flags on fire, anchored on the porches of homes in Long Beach.
Firefighters were dispatched about 3:30 a.m. to a reported vehicle fire in the 2800 block of Iroquois Avenue, said Capt. Jack Crabtree of the Long Beach Police Department.
“We (firefighters) got on scene and calls came in of exterior fires on the same block,” Crabtree said. “Multiple homes had exterior fires that were burning. Some were out before we arrived.”
The vehicle fire—a convertible with a soft top—had been ignited initially by the burning of a flag at the Iroquois Avenue home, he said, adding that the vehicle fire was immediately extinguished….