Officials suspect link in 3 suspicious blazes

4/7/2001

VERMILION, Ohio - Three suspicious fires this week in Erie and Sandusky counties has authorities wondering whether they may be linked.

The Florence Township fire department was called to a farm building that burned to the ground on Harrison Road early Wednesday morning. The same morning, a fire was extinguished before it did any serious damage to a barn on Mason Road. In Sandusky County's York Township, an abandoned house burned Tuesday on Sandusky County Road 308.

All three fires were in remote areas and the targets were abandoned structures.