Brampton arson caught on video: Suspects torch tow trucks, damaging several vehicles

Peel Regional Police (PRP) are investigating a deliberately set fire that destroyed multiple vehicles at a Brampton truck yard early Tuesday morning, and newly obtained surveillance footage appears to show two suspects igniting a tow truck moments before flames spread across the property.

Emergency crews were called to 100 Rutherford Road South at around 3:16 a.m., where firefighters found two heavy tow trucks, one sedan and a box truck burning at M. Johal Auto Repairs Ltd. The fire was quickly extinguished, and no injuries were reported.

CityNews has reviewed surveillance video from the yard that shows a suspect approaching a red heavy tow truck, dousing it with an unknown liquid, and setting it on fire. Within seconds, flames engulf the truck and spread to others parked nearby.

PRP Constable Amanda Steenson told reporters at the scene that a second suspect was observed on video surveillance pouring gasoline on the heavy tow trucks and setting them on fire. Investigators believe the two suspects intentionally targeted the tow trucks in the yard.

Steenson confirmed the incident is being investigated as arson.

“Every single day, I start my shift around 5:30 a.m. I came here, and there was a police car, and [the officer] stopped me,” said Hardev, owner of the damaged box truck. I spoke with a security guard, and he showed me some security camera videos. I saw [the suspect], he came here from the main road… and he put some oil from the back of the truck.”

The blaze occurred just a short distance from the site of another major fire on Jan. 5, when several tow trucks were set on fire at an auto yard on the same stretch of Rutherford Road.

In that case, police said the fire was believed to be intentionally set, and surveillance footage captured multiple suspects entering the property before the vehicles ignited.

It’s unclear whether the two arsons are linked.