The fire did little damage, less than $5,000 total and no one was displaced, he said. But the fact that both means of escaping the home were targeted in the arson is worrisome for firefighters.
SPRINGFIELD – The city Arson & Bomb Squad is investigating an apparent attempt to burn down a fully occupied three-family home at 281 Allen St., said Dennis G. Leger, aide to Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant.
Firefighters were called to the wood-frame home at 12:30 a.m. Sunday. They found that someone had piled trash on both the front and back entrances to the home and set that trash on fire. The front steps caught on fire. The trash on the back steps didn’t catch on fire, Leger said.
The fire did little damage, less than $5,000 total and no one was displaced from the home, he said. But the fact that both means of escaping the home were targeted in the arson is worrisome for firefighters.
“Someone had a plan,” Leger said.
A smoke detector inside the home went off, alerting residents.