DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. --
Eleven fires in 12 hours kept DeKalb County firefighters on the move beginning Sunday evening and into early Monday morning.
The first in the string of fires broke out about 4 p.m. Sunday; the latest around 4 a.m. Monday.
In between there were fires at the Indian Creek Baptist Church on Rockbridge Road, a business on James B. Rivers Drive, a home on Main Street and a wooded area behind Stone Mill Elementary School. A hair salon, a car rental office and a daycare center also burned.
All of the fires were within a mile-and-a-half of each other and are suspicious, said Captain Eric Jackson of the DeKalb Fire Department.
"We are looking at these with a raised eyebrow," said Jackson. "It's far past coincidental that all these fires are just accidently occuring."
Firefighters were exhausted, but remained determined.
"Our firefighers are remaining resilient," said Jackson. "We are responding and we are extinguishing; we are investigating."
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