A man was taken into custody after authorities say he set a portion of a Hollywood home on fire and then refused to leave the residence early Wednesday.
It was around 4:02 a.m. when Hollywood Fire Rescue responded to the home in the 5200 block of Wiley Street for a report of a residential fire.
Once there, fire crews learned that “a portion of the home had been intentionally set on fire” by a man in his 40s with “severe mental illness,” Hollywood Fire Rescue said…