A Saskatoon Fire Department badge is photographed in Regina on Thursday, January 11, 2024.Photo by Heywood Yu/Regina Leader-Post

Saskatoon police charge man with arson after suspicious fires in Mayfair area

Between 9:21 a.m. and 10:37 a.m. on Thursday, crews responded to two garage fires, a deck fire and two fence fires.

by · Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Saskatoon police say they arrested a suspect after firefighters were called to four separate blazes in Saskatoon’s Mayfair neighbourhood over a period of just over an hour on Thursday morning.

No injuries were reported.

The first call came in at 9:21 a.m. about a detached garage fire in the 1500 block of Avenue E North. It spread to a garage across the alley on Avenue F North.