Watch above: What are police saying after multiple arsons in a west-end neighbourhood? Mark Carcasole reports
TORONTO – Police are investigating after eight cars were torched in west-end Toronto overnight.
Fire crews responded to a used car lot on Toro Road near Finch Ave. W. and Keele St. just after 2:30 a.m to find several vehicles engulfed in flames.
No injuries were reported and there’s no word yet on any arrests.
Andy O’Connor, the owner of nearby business Gottesman Signs, said area residents are used to crime.
“I’m not surprised at all. Not in this neighbourhood,” he said. “A lot of that stuff goes down here. We’ve had cars on fire behind our shop before, we’ve had cars broken into and smashed up.”
The incident comes a day after several other cars were set on fire in the Jane St. and Wilson Ave. area early Sunday morning.
However police weren’t willing to link the two incidents.
Firefighters were called to a number of homes where crews found the vehicles in flames on some driveways.
Police say a total of seven cars were damaged. Anyone with information is urged to call police.
Meanwhile, investigators are still on the search for an arsonist that destroyed multiple vehicles in an upscale Toronto neighbourhood in May.
Police have released a security video of a “person of interest” in the case.
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