Five dumpsters were set on fire Friday morning in Southeast Roanoke. Roanoke City Fire-EMS believes they are related.
Shortly after 4:30 a.m. Friday, June 26, Roanoke Fire-EMS responded to reports of two dumpsters on fire behind the comic store Collector’s Lair on Bennington Street in Southeast Roanoke. The store’s manager, Rebecca Lair, was immediately alerted.
“A little surprised for one, and then just sort of wondering, okay, not sure how a dumpster fire happened, was it purposeful, was it an accident,” Lair said.
Roanoke Fire-EMS has reason to believe those fires were set purposefully, since not long after, firefighters responded to a dumpster fire on Riverland Road Southeast at an empty building, and another on King Charles Avenue, and the last dumpster fire, just before six Friday morning, at Fishwick Middle School.