An alleged arsonist was arrested after two commercial structure fires in Downtown Redding Friday morning. At 6:30am Redding Fire Department was dispatched to Nails4You on Placer Street just west of California Street. The business had been broken into and vandalized and evidence was found of multiple attempts to start a fire. About 30 minutes later firefighters were called on reports of a person starting a fire about a block away at the downtown bus depot on Yuba Street. Redding Police detained a suspect, who was booked into jail on two counts of arson.
– Steve Gibson