What you should know
- Police are looking for someone who doused the floor of a Brooklyn apartment building with an accelerant, likely gasoline, and set it on fire early Thursday, a New York City Police spokesman says.
- The FDNY responded to a 911 call about a fire on the 15th floor of the Third Avenue Wyckoff Houses complex around 1:30 a.m. where they extinguished the fire.
- No injuries were reported.
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NEW YORK — Police are looking for someone who doused the floor of a Brooklyn apartment building with an accelerant, likely gasoline, and set it on fire early Thursday, a New York City Police spokesman says.
The FDNY responded to a 911 call about a fire on the 15th floor of the Wyckoff Gardens complex on Third Avenue around 1:30 a.m. where they extinguished the fire.
Further investigation found that accelerant had been spilled from the elevator and throughout the corridor. A can of gasoline was recovered at the scene.
Police have not disclosed any possible motive for the arson, nor have they shared a description of any suspects.
No injuries were reported.
Anyone with information about them is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (English), or for Spanish at 1-888-57-PISTA.
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