Police in Mill Creek are on the hunt for a potential serial arsonist. There have been at least five suspicious fires, two of them aimed at homes in one neighborhood, one at an office and two at neighborhood parks. People who live in the area are worried their property could be next.
Bruce Wojtoviets plans to move his firewood and anything flammable away from his Mill Creek house.
“That’s the main thing now is the safety of my family and the safety of the neighbors,” said Wojtoviets.
Mill Creek Police have investigated attempted arsons at two of his neighbors’ homes with the most recent caught here on surveillance video, where a lit flare can be seen being thrown on the back deck of an elderly woman’s home.
“This is pretty uncommon, we don’t typically deal with serial criminals like this,” said Mill Creek Police Chief Greg Elwin. “We don’t typically deal with intentionally set fires.”