[Press Release] : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Incendiary Fire Leads to Arrest

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Incendiary Fire Leads to Arrest

COLUMBIA, MO (June 11, 2012) - Columbia Fire Fighters responded to 2904 Rangeline, Lot 77 of Colonial Village Mobile Home park at 2:58 am on Monday, June 11, 2012 for a report of a house fire. Residents of lot 77 reported to 9-1-1 that they heard an "explosion" and then fire and smoke were seen in the area of the bathroom of the mobile home. 

Fire fighters arrived on the scene at 3:04 am and found a small amount of fire and smoke both inside the mobile home and underneath the mobile home. The six occupants of the mobile home had evacuated safely. The fire was extinguished in less than 5 minutes. 

Columbia Fire Investigators were called to the scene and ruled out accidental/unintentional causes for the fire and determined the fire was intentionally set. Fire investigators contacted Columbia Police and and asked for a law enforcement investigator to be assigned to the incident. 

Fire investigators, working with law enforcement investigators and patrol officers, developed a suspect who was subsequently arrested at the Columbia Police Department where he had been taken for questioning. 

Fire investigators and law enforcement arrested Joesph G Warren, 44 for multiple charges including Arson 1st Degree and endangering the welfare of a child. Warren is being held in the Boone County Jail awaiting bonding. 

The crime had the potential to injure or kill multiple occupants of the mobile home. Fire and law enforcement investigators pursue the crime of arson vigorously in an attempt to stop property damage, injury and death. 

Damage to the mobile home at lot 77 is estimated at $2,000.00. 

 

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