For people living in one Lexington neighborhood it seems there’s no end in sight. There have been about a dozen suspicious fires along Hill Rise Drive recently, and Saturday morning people woke up to a car fully engulfed in flames.
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“Oh my god I’m going crazy,” says Jewel Burnette, who lives in the community. “Who’s doing this? How come they haven’t caught them yet? What’s really going on?”
Burnette was in bed early Saturday morning when she smelled smoke. “I kept saying to my husband, honey I smell something.” They later realized the smell was coming from something eerily familiar, a car burning just outside their home on Terrace View Drive.
Burnette says it’s not far from where another car burned before, which was the beginning of a steady stream of suspicious fires along Hill Rise Drive.
“If I see something I will tell,” says Burnette. “I mean I have an elderly daddy who can’t walk or nothing.”
Lexington Fire has asked Lexington Police to step up patrols, so they warn the public not to be surprised if they get stopped.
Lexington Police arrested a man Tuesday who may have information on the fires. He’s being held on an unrelated warrant.
