Burned garbage lay scattered on the sidewalk Friday morning after someone set fire to a trashcan on 20th Street near Capp.
A man was arrested following a string of trashcan fires in the neighborhood early Friday morning, police said.
The 41-year-old suspect was taken into custody just before 3 a.m. after witnesses pointed him out as the person responsible for setting multiple trashcans on fire within a two-block radius in the Mission, according to San Francisco Police spokesman Carlos Manfredi. The fires were at 18th and Folsom, 20th and Folsom and 18th and Florida streets.
Minutes earlier, around 2:24 a.m. someone reported a trashcan on fire on 20th at Capp Street, Manfredi said. The trashcan, one maintained by the city, is in front of Alioto Mini Park.
Prior to that, at 2:04 a.m., firefighters were called to the area of 16th and Folsom streets where they found a Jeep Cherokee on fire.
Investigators are looking into whether the man arrested this morning also started the car fire and the fire at Capp and 20th streets, Manfredi said.
In a possibly related incident, friend of CSC Jeff tells me that around 2 a.m. Thursday, he and his girlfriend spotted a trashcan on fire just inside the entryway of US Bank building at Mission and 22nd streets. The couple phoned 911 and waited until SFFD arrived to presumably put the fire out.