{"id":152873,"date":"2026-01-28T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:46:18","slug":"11-cars-set-ablaze-in-san-jose-authorities-probe-possible-serial-arsonist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152873\/","title":{"rendered":"11 cars set ablaze in San Jose; authorities probe possible serial arsonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose police and arson investigators are probing a string of vehicle fires, including 11 cars torched at five locations along the Highway 87 corridor early Tuesday morning between midnight and 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are reviewing 24 vehicle fires reported from Dec. 18 to Jan. 27 to determine whether a serial arsonist is responsible or if they are unrelated, separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials are urging the public to share surveillance footage or tips via the arson hotline at 408-272-7766.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Jose<\/a> arson investigators and police are probing a series of vehicle fires that have erupted across the city, including a recent string of 11 vehicles torched at five different locations early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Between midnight and 1:30 a.m., fire officials reported multiple blazes along the Highway 87 corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline of the Tuesday morning incidents<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">12:03 a.m.: One car was found burning near North Autumn and West Julian streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">12:15 a.m.: A vehicle was torched near Woz Way and Almaden Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1:00 a.m.: A third car was set on fire at Floyd Street and Lick Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1:02 a.m.: Six cars were set ablaze in the 1600 block of Almaden Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1:14 a.m.: Two cars were set on fire in the 1600 block of Almaden Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Growing number of arson cases<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are now examining a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:total of 24 vehicle fires reported between Dec. 18 and Jan. 27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">total of 24 vehicle fires reported between Dec. 18 and Jan. 27. <\/a>Investigators are working to determine if the fires are the work of a single serial arsonist or if they are unrelated, separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The community is asked to review surveillance footage that may have captured the incidents. Anyone with information is encouraged to submit tips to the arson tip line at 408-272-7766.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story was written based on information from the San Jose Fire Department along with previous reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief San Jose police and arson investigators are probing a string of vehicle fires, including 11 cars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[75302,88,90,89,17060,25209,3466,75303],"class_list":["post-152873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-arson-investigators","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police","tag-serial-arsonist","tag-surveillance-footage","tag-vehicle-fires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}