Chicago Firefighter Accused Of Arson Is Out On $1 Million Bond

CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) -- A Chicago Fire Department lieutenant accused in a string of arsons is out on a one (m) million-dollar bond.

Forty-six-year-old Jeffrey Boyle is charged with starting four fires in Chicago and four in Park Ridge. Prosecutors allege he would drink and start the fires as he coped with grudges and losing money gambling.

Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan set his bond yesterday at one (m) million dollars. His family posted a 100-thousand-dollar cash bail and Boyle was released from custody.

Defense attorney James Tunick says Boyle believed no one was at risk when he set the fires and that most of them were in trash bins.

Boyle is a 25-year veteran of the fire department.

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