CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Charleston firefighters were investigating four blazes discovered within 10 minutes of one another in the city's West Side.
Wednesday night's fires were considered suspicious, said Charleston Fire Chief Grant Gunnoe.
Firefighters got the first call about 10 p.m. at a five-unit apartment building, where a fire started on a back porch, Gunnoe said.
That fire was a few dozen paces from a business where someone set fire to a chair on the porch that spread upward into a storage room full of antiques, he said.
Fires were also reported at a residence and at an outbuilding behind another residence.
Wednesday's fires left three people homeless.
Anyone with information about the fires can call the Fire Prevention Bureau at 348-8057 or the state fire marshal's office arson hot line at 1-800-233-3473.
