PAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement officials in Pawnee County including the State Fire Marshal are investigating three suspicions fires on Sunday in Larned.
All three fires were reported over a 20-minute period just after 2 a.m., according to police chief Charles Orth.
The first fire at a residence in the 500 Block of west 12th Street destroyed a car parked in a driveway. It also damaged a neighbor’s vehicle parked nearby and a city trash can.
A few minutes later, officials found a rag left burning in the street near the location of the car fire along with an incendiary device or Molotov cocktail in the 200 Block of west 17th Street, according to Orth.
The State Fire Marshal will focus their attention on the car fire and the connection between the fires.
There were no injuries.