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Amite firefighter charged with starting series of fires

05:20 PM CST on Saturday, March 8, 2008

WWLTV.com

A volunteer firefighter who also worked as a policeman in Amite was arrested on six counts of arson after a string of fires in the area, according to the Amite fire chief.

Amite PD

Chief Bruce Cutrer said 23-year-old Lee Widas was arrested after a fire broke out in nearby Roseland Saturday at 3 a.m.

"(He was a) really good kid," said Chief Jerry Trabona of the Amite Police Department. "It's hard to believe that Lee would do something like that. It really stunned everybody. Stunned me. But Lee, I knew if he did that he would tell me."

According to Cutrer, over the past two weeks there have been fires at a school, two vacant homes, a mobile home, a playground concession stand and a restroom.