Investigators call fires in burned properties suspicious
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SARPY COUNTY, Ne (WOWT) — Bellevue firefighters continued to pour water after dark onto the burning remains of condemned properties in the flood-ravaged Paradise Lakes community Sunday. Investigators call the fires suspicious.
Authorities said the fires are what sent a plume of black smoke rising over eastern Sarpy County.
Officer Sean Vest with Bellevue Police tweeted, “The black smoke you see coming from Old Town Bellevue is several trailers on fire in the Paradise Lake Community.”
The trailers were rendered uninhabitable by the spring floods. Two of them burned on Sunday.
The Bellevue Fire Department was on the scene for hours.
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