At 4:49 pm Tuesday, the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District responded to CVS in the Town of Discovery Bay after a man reportedly was lighting items inside the store on fire.
Engine 59 arrived on scene to find smoke inside the building with several employees still inside. Crews quickly located a display rack that had been lit on fire and extinguished by store patrons. A secondary search was conducted for additional fires.
According to the ECCFPD District, a small flag display and a bag of charcoal briquettes were damaged.
The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office responded and quickly took a 35-year-old man into custody for arson at around 5:03pm. No details of the subject were released.
The District said no one was injured in the arson and the incident is under investigation by the Contra Costa County Arson Investigations Unit.
No further information has been released.
File Photo of Engine 59
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Good job citizens for putting out the fire.
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