'Suspicious' fires hit Thai restaurant, downtown alley
EUGENE, Ore. - A recycling bin at a downtown restaurant caught fire Wednesday morning, one of two fires overnight that firefighters are calling "suspicious."
The call came in around 4:45 a.m. reporting a fire in the cardboard bin at Ta Ra Rin restaurant at 1200 Oak St.
The fire started in the cardboard bin and burned up onto a beam on the building. Firefighters said sprinklers activated, protecting the building.
Firefighters called the fire suspicious because it resembles the suspicious fires that have been happening in the last year in recycling and garbage bins around town.
In all those cases, the fires have started overnight and multiple fires started in close proximity.
Another fire call came in Wednesday morning around five blocks away from Ta Ra Rin in an alley off of Broadway between Charnelton and Lincoln.
A news photographer found a police officer stationed outside the alley waiting for fire investigators.
That fire burned next to a cinder block building.
No one was hurt in either fire.
Sure sounds like there is a fire bug running around the area. Better catch it before something really bad happens. Then on the other hand when times are tough, sometimes these things have a way of happening. Hope that is not the case. Hope it gets stopped before someone is injured or killed.