In the very early morning hours of Dec. 29, detectives of the Tucson Police Department, Organized Crime/Arson Unit responded to assist with an investigation of a fire that occurred at the Circle K Store located at 3970 N. Flowing Wells.

Detectives from the Special Investigations Division of the Tucson Police Department as well as investigators from the Tucson Fire Department have been conducting examinations into several fires that occurred on Jan. 2 and

Officials of the Golder Ranch Fire Department are seeking leads to capture the arsonist or arsonists responsible for intentionally setting fire to a playground in Catalina Neighborhood Park, located at 16562 N. Oracle Rd.

Northwest Fire District’s Ironwood Hotshot crew, consisting of about 20 firefighters, has returned to Tucson after being dispatched to help subdue the Waldo Fire in Colorado and Grapevine Fire at Mt. Graham in Safford. 

Don’t worry if you drive by the intersection of River and Orange Grove road at lunchtime and you notice a fire truck parked inside the Marana Marketplace Shopping Center. Since Firehouse Subs, 3844 W. River Rd., opened its doors to the public on June 18, fire crews are seen there regularly.

Fire officials say the fire at the Circle K in Marana is arson.

On Tuesday, April 19, Jon Ashley’s Facebook post read, “(I) got a call that there’s been a fire at our church in the fellowship hall/classrooms building. No one is hurt, but major damage. Leaving a conference in Phoenix to get home. Please pray....”

Hazy smoke filled the air as flames illuminated the night skies over Tucson that tragic night in December 1970.

Northwest Fire District responded to a fire at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17, that heavily damaged a Continental Reserve home.

Northwest Fire District responded to a fire at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday that heavily damaged a Continental Reserve home.

In the early hours of Friday, April 30, the Northwest Friends Community Church was ablaze, contrasting with the night sky, the third and hardest-hit church in a spree of arson attacks.

Northwest Fire Captain Dave Villareal, second from right, watches as Raytheon firefighter Fabian Cauldwell opens vents that were cut in the roof of the Community Friends Church. The two departments linked up for a day of training at a church, which was recently damaged by arson fire. Because the roof needs to be replaced, the church owner did not mind offering it to the fire departments for some hands-on training.

Church letting recruits train in burned building

Special to The Explorer

Investigators with the Pima County Sheriff's Department said they have begun to look at a series of arson fires at churches in the Northwest as hate crimes.

A fire last Friday night at a Northwest church has investigators looking into the possibility that an arsonist is targeting houses of worship.

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