More Car Fires Hit LA on New Year's.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four more vehicle fires erupted in the Los Angeles New Year's Eve, causing authorities to check any reference to a series of arson blazes that burned dozens of cars and has spread to some of the structures in recent days.In a sobering counterpoint to the typical binge the night, fire engines were deployed in areas of police patrolled the city, took a hot line switch calls and thousands of people as a reward was offered.
Firefighters quickly put out the fire the car about 6 pm on Saturday in Hollywood that "corresponds to the profile of concern" for the following authorities have been arson, fire representative Brian Humphrey said.
The crew extinguished the fire 10 minutes. The flames did not spread beyond the car and nobody was hurt. Humphrey could not immediately say how the fire started.
Later in the Hollywood and Highland complex, a popular holiday destination of revelers, firefighters responded to a small fire in the car parking structure, which was from the time they arrived, Humphrey said.
He said only that the fire was under investigation, and could not say whether it was believed to be arson or associated with others.
Shortly before 9:00 pm, firefighters made quick work of two fires in a car garage in West Hollywood.
Fire dispatch manager Robert Diaz said the fires were extinguished before they could spread.
There was no word if they were linked to arson fires.
But more than a dozen fires looked like the set just before dawn on Saturday, mainly in North Hollywood, and about two dozen fires in the area of Hollywood the day before.
Although some of the fire spread and damaged houses and apartments, no one has brought injuries.
However, some residents were on edge because the authorities have increased efforts to catch the criminal or criminals at night, when police and fire resources are always stretched to the limit, as drunken revelers hit the New City.
"We are pulling out all the stops," Humphrey said. "We hope that the person or persons responsible will be brought to a quick and complete justice."
Firefighters had to be placed around the city to respond to emergencies, and the authorities have created a hot line and pored over the plane. Authorities also interviewed witnesses, looking at the video footage for clues and announced at least $ 35,000 reward for information leading to conviction.
Among the most pressing questions: Were the fires set by arsonist serial, several people or copycats? And why the target machine, apparently at random?
"It's very frustrating," said Gary Joseph, one of several neighbors who stood looking at the footage of four heavily charred cars in the garage in North Hollywood. Joseph said there was no way to clean your car and keep it safe.
"It's kind of subject, but nothing I can do about it," he said.
Sheila Kirk, who lives in a building near Highway Hollywood, where four vehicles were burned, said she quickly realized when she woke up before dawn that the burning boom has spread to her neighborhood, although it is a few miles to the north-east of the where fires set the night before.
"We heard all about the fire in Hollywood and West Hollywood, and then we heard something like a giant hose and ran downstairs and found all the lights," said Kirk, whose car was partially melted the bumper, in spite of about 30 meters from the car that had been set on fire. "It looks like they chose a place where cars are grouped together so that they can do the most damage. Thank God nobody was hurt."
Neighbors and onlookers gathered to take cell phone photos of the wreckage, and the smell of burnt plastic still hung in the air hours after the fire.
Kirk said that she did not feel safer because of its construction has already struck.
"You know, you just do not know," she said. "When you're dealing with crazy people who know what they're going to do?"
Although there are a few tips in public, officials believe that it is possible that one person in a car, motorbike or bicycle could set all the fires, taking into account the limited area of blazes broke out in, but I know that they could be looking for several suspects.
Police said they searched for a man who was riding in the mid-1990s, Lexus sedan, but offered no details or say.
Fire officials also have yet to establish a damage indicator blazes. In West Hollywood alone, they said the fire destroyed about $ 350,000 worth of property.
Also early Saturday, about 25 miles south of the unincorporated part of Los Angeles, arson detectives from the Sheriff's Department investigated the fire, which destroyed eight vehicles, damaged six, destroyed a shed and damaged houses.
No evidence was found connections that fire those in Hollywood, sheriff's Sgt. Joe Acevedo said in a statement.
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