String of suspicious car fires in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood spark investigation
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A series of car fires in the South Bay has investigators looking for answers. Several people in San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood woke up on Thursday to find their cars torched.
Surveillance video captures the moments a car went up in flames in San Jose. The fire department is now investigating who set three cars on fire in the Willow Glen neighborhood.
They said it happened between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Thursday.
We spoke with San Jose resident Marissa Pimentel. "Just gives me a little pause just getting ready for work or something like that and seeing it."
Video shows one of the vehicles, a charred SUV, sitting in a driveway.
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The fire department says each car was at a different location: Curtner, Johnston Avenue and Lincoln. We spoke with residents about the incidents.
"I'm thinking there's just a lot of crazy people out right now, I don't know why I don't know what's wrong with everybody these days, I really don't," San Jose resident Brenda Alvarez said.
The resident who shared surveillance video with police and ABC7 News shows someone on a bike, appearing to hold something they used to light one of the cars on fire.
We spoke to one woman, Rung Jirawatsuntson, who lives in front of where one of the cars, a Prius, caught fire from underneath.
"Crazy and kind of scary for me because this was also my car, too," Jirawatsuntson said.
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"I live here for 20 years on this street, it's a good, you know, quiet neighborhood," Jirawatsuntson said.
During the day, we saw several San Jose police officers in the area, knocking on people's doors.
Later in the evening, things appeared to be back to normal.
The San Jose Fire Department is the lead agency on this investigation. They said their arson unit is working with the San Jose Police Department.
Anyone with information related to this string of car fires is encouraged to contact the arson tip line 408-272-7766.
