King County Prosecutors have charged two men accused of setting the fire on November 14, 2019 that destroyed a large home under construction in unincorporated Auburn after they said they went there to explore what was being built.
20-year-old Ryan Higham and 22-year-old Miguel Kirschnick are both charged with Arson in the First Degree. According to court documents, Higham first told Det. Michael Day, who works as a Fire Investigator for the King County Sheriff's Office, that Kirschnick went inside the home and started the fire while he stayed outside. Later, after he failed a polygraph examination, the probable cause documents say he admitted that both of them entered the basement of the house.