Two car fires in the middle of the night in Penticton Monday have been deemed suspicious and are being investigated, according to the Penticton Fire Department.
The first car to be torched was at Winnipeg Street and Nanaimo, beside the Victory Church shelter at 2:24 a.m. The next vehicle was on fire at Churchill Avenue and Sydney Street at 3:37 a.m., according to the daily fire dispatch.
Surveillance video shows the one torched on Winnipeg Street. In the video, it shows one man pouring gasoline from a Jerry can onto a vehicle and another man with some sort of fire starter throwing it onto the car which then quickly erupts in flames. One man is seeing driving away on a bicycle.
The vehicle was parked against an apartment and next to a group of parked vehicles.
According to assistant fire chief Rob Trupp, only one of the vehicles, a Chrysler 300, was damaged by the fire.
There were no injuries and although there were structures nearby there was no damage to them.
Both fires remain under investigation.
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