'Is This Guy Ever Going to Stop?' Police Arrest a 19-Year-Old Man After 10 Cars Are Set Afire On the Peninsula. ; Veteran Firefighters Say They Never Before Had Responded to Fires That Were Set Faster Than They Could Be Put Out.

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A 19-year-old man will be in court Monday to face charges related to a destructive wave of car fires that had firefighters and police swarming over the city's peninsula before dawn Friday.

Firefighters scrambled to put out fires even as new ones were igniting on nearby streets, leading police to stop and question anyone who was anywhere near the fires.

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'Is This Guy Ever Going to Stop?' Police Arrest a 19-Year-Old Man After 10 Cars Are Set Afire On the Peninsula. ; Veteran Firefighters Say They Never Before Had Responded to Fires That Were Set Faster Than They Could Be Put Out.

That tactic apparently paid off when Sgt. John Nueslein stopped Thomas Cassidy walking at Pleasant and South streets, not far from one of the last fires to spring up.

Witness statements and items Cassidy was carrying tied him to the fire in a car at 68 Pleasant St. that was reported just a few minutes earlier, Police Chief Tim Burton said. Cassidy also was c...

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