FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Police and firefighters may have stopped a firebug early Saturday morning in southeast Fresno.
They detained a woman not far away from the area where they had to battle three separate fires -- all between Kings Canyon and Tulare, just off Peach.
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Firefighters doused the flames of a grass fire, a small house fire, and a dumpster fire and they got a description of a possible suspect just before 4 a.m.
"We had somebody report a description of a female in a flower dress, backpack, carrying a whip who left the last fire," said Fresno fire Department battalion chief Tony Escobedo.
Firefighters tracked down the homeless suspect and arson investigators questioned her.
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They say she denied setting the fires, but witnesses said it was her.
Damage from the fires was minimal and nobody got injured.