(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) has arrested a man for allegedly trying to set three different buildings on fire overnight on Friday, Sept. 12.
On Friday, just before 3 a.m., a woman saw a fire at a church in the 4200 block of North Academy Boulevard, just north of Woodmen Road. As she was calling 911, she found two CSPD officers nearby and reported the fire directly to them.
CSPD quickly found and extinguished the fire, only to be alerted to a second fire at a nearby gas station, located just west of the initial fire at the church. Then, a third fire was found at a nearby fast-food restaurant…