Investigators say a fire inside a house near 11th and Furnas Avenue around 7:00 Tuesday morning was deliberately set. “The home was vacant and had been for some time,” says LFR Captain Nancy Crist. “Overgrown brush around the residence. We had to actually cut through some of that brush to get a ladder to the roof.”
Crist says the fire started on a mattress in the basement and spread to the rest of the home, which is a total loss. The home was valued at $76,000.
Neighbors told police numerous people had been seen coming and going from the home.