Arson Suspect Fighting To Survive After Industrial Explosion

By News Staff

Posted July 14, 2009 12:00 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

An arson suspect is fighting to survive and police hold three others in custody, but the circumstances surrounding a Vaughan industrial unit going up in flames remain somewhat mysterious.

It was 3am Tuesday when witnesses said they recalled seeing a man with his pants on fire fleeing an industrial complex on Rayette Road in the Keele and Highway 7 area shortly after a blaze started in one of the units.

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