A volunteer firefighter on Long Island was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly admitting to setting some of the brush fires that swept through the town of Medford earlier in the day, according to a local official.
Investigators were battling nearly a half-dozen small brush fires in Medford Tuesday. They put them out by the evening after fighting them for roughly six hours, officials said. No injuries were reported.
According to the supervisor for the town of Brookhaven, which saw one of the fires hit its property, on Pines Park, the volunteer firefighter is with the Medford fire department and believed to be about 19 or 20 years old.
Brookhaven intends to press charges, the supervisor says.
No other details were immediately available.
