A man was arrested early Saturday and will face charges after starting fires at and vandalizing four Austin gas stations, Austin Fire Department officials said.

AFD Division Chief Thayer Smith said the man was arrested shortly after 9 a.m. at a gas station in the 3400 block of U.S. 183 South in East Austin, after police caught him pulling wood from his vehicle and attempting to set it on fire next to a gas pump.

Smith said that in the two hours before, the man had made similar attacks at three other gas stations in Southeast Austin, including one in the 2400 block of South Pleasant Valley Road, when he set a gas can on fire next to a pump.

Before that, Smith said, the man had attacked the gas pumps at a station in the 5300 block of Nuckols Crossing.

Officials did not have information about the fourth incident, which happened in the 6400 block East Ben White Boulevard.

Austin-Travis County EMS medics on Saturday morning were evaluating the man, and Smith said he will face several changes, including arson.