Police are searching for suspects after someone intentionally started fires at two homes and a restaurant in Payette early Monday morning.
Payette Police Chief Mark Clark said the first fire was reported at 12:30 a.m. a house in the 1800 block of 7th Avenue North.
Clark said the homeowner went outside to find a person pouring gasoline on the outside of the house. When the homeowner confronted the person, he ran away, Clark said.
As police and fire were responding to that incident, dispatchers received another report of a fire, this time at the A&W restaurant on Main Street.
A passerby had called police after spotting flames, Clark said. Officers arrived to find that someone had thrown a brick through the window of the business, then set it on fire.