VIDEO: Lincoln Police have declared four different weekend vehicle fires as arson after tying them to fireworks.
First responders initially rushed to a car fire near 35th and R Streets around 1 p.m. Friday afternoon.
According to LPD, that fire started after a person threw lit fireworks inside the car.
Around 5 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln Police and Lincoln Fire and Rescue were called to another car fire near 34th and P Streets, near the scene of the first fire.
Officers said it appeared a firework was lodged in the vehicle’s exhaust pipe as well as a firework thrown inside the vehicle.
Two other firework-related car fires occurred at two separate apartment complexes Sunday morning in north and northwest Lincoln, police said.
Around 2:30 a.m., a vehicle fire was reported at the Highland View Apartments at North 1st and Superior.