On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:21:40 +0000, PeterL wrote:

> Dave Smith > wrote in
> news:498f57a4 :
>
>> Late Friday night there were three serious fires in Ottawa that gutted
>> a number of commercial buildings. One of them was at my nephew's video
>> store. The fire started in a hair salon and spa upstairs but his shop
>> was totally destroyed. What didn't burn was damaged by smoke and water.
>> It was arson.
>>
>> This came at an especially hard time for my nephew and his wife. She
>> had just quit a good paying job to work full time in the store.
>> Luckily, they had insurance and are planning to re-open, but it will be
>> a few months before they can open up again. They haven't even been able
>> to get into the building to see how bad things are.
>>
>> Early the next morning, Ottawa police were called to a disturbance at a
>> hotel in the city hotel and arrested 5 men. One of them had serious
>> burns to 90% of his body. At least two of them have now been charged
>> with arson.
>
>
>
> There are some serious fires in Victoria at the moment.
>
> Seems several of them have been deliberatly lit.
>
> When the arsonists concerned are caught, they are going to be charged
> with murder.


Of course they will be charged with murder, if caught. What else were you
expecting?