San Diego fire officials say a fire scorched 25 palm trees in Mission Bay early this morning. The blaze, reported shortly after 1 this morning, burned a cluster of trees off of southbound I-5 at Sea World Drive.
Investigators say at least a dozen palm trees in the same area were damaged in a similar fashion in several instances last month.
Fire Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque says those blazes may have been an act of arson.
Luque : We're looking at all possibilities. We haven't ruled accidental out, we haven't ruled arson in. We have a suspicion that these are intentionally set, but we don't have any direct evidence.
Maurice Luque talking about the 25 palm tree fires in Mission Bay this morning. No injuries were reported due to the fires.
