TROY - A 39-year-old city man was accused Wednesday of setting two fires Tuesday night on Fourth Avenue in Lansingburgh, police said.

Duane Miles 0f 502 Fifth Ave. is facing arson and criminal mischief charges.

Police said the first fire, at 598 Fourth Ave., was reported at 9:49 p.m. The second blaze two blocks away at 671 Fourth Ave. was spotted 15 minutes later.

Miles is accused of spraying an unknown substance for the first fire, which damaged the front of the building. Miles lives about three blocks from there.

Cheryl Rekemeyer, the owner of 671 Fourth Ave., said a plastic garbage can was set on fire next to her garage.

Rekemeyer said she and her neighbors are concerned about the fires in their neighborhood in the past four years. There was a outbreak of arson from 2014-15 and again in 2017.

The city's Arson Task Force will meet to review the latest fires to determine if they are related to previous fires in Lansingburgh, Assistant Fire Chief Eric McMahon said.

The fires Tuesday night did not fit the pattern established in the earlier arson cases where early morning fires were set at the rear of empty buildings generally accessible from alleys. Tuesday night's fires involved occupied residences.

Police are investigating at least one more fire in the neighborhood at 600 Fourth St., which damaged a building across 116th Street from where the first fire was reported.

"It's just really scary," said Debbbie Faraci of 602 Fourth St. as she cleaned up the damage to her mother's home next door.

Faraci said city firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, limiting the damage to the outside of the home.

Miles was charged with felony second-degree arson, misdemeanor fifth-degree arson and two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree criminal mischief. He was arraigned in City Court and sent to the Rensselaer County Jail in lieu of $25,000 cash bail or bond.