A man has been arrested in connection with a two-alarm fire that burned down two unoccupied houses in the 7th Ward early on Monday, according to the New Orleans Fire Department.
The man was arrested on Tuesday by the fire department’s arson division and is being held in custody, NOFD said in a press release, which did not name the individual.
Early on Monday, firefighters responded to a fire that broke out in the 1900 block of North Rocheblave Street. A bus, a duplex and a two-story fourplex all caught on fire before being brought under control later that morning, NOFD said…