Suspicious fires in downtown Nanaimo believed to be linked: RCMP May 1, 2019 8:47 AM

NANAIMO — Police are searching for two “fire bugs” connected to several intentionally lit fires in downtown Nanaimo.

Nanaimo RCMP said two men were seen lighting a fire in the lower level of the Bastion St. parkade just after midnight on Sunday, April 28.

Two piles of garbage several feet high against a parkade wall were set alight.

RCMP Cst. Gary O’Brien said a more troubling and serious fire was set only minutes later, in a brush pile inside a locked compound at Golds Automotive.