Hollywood — Police work the scene where a "person of interest" in the recent fires was detained early Monday morning.

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Hollywood — A police cruiser diverts traffic along Sunset Boulevard after law enforcement officials detained a man driving a van at the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. Booking records identified the man as Harry Burkhart, a Hollywood area resident. He is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail at the Inmate Reception Center in downtown L.A.

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Hollywood — A van belonging to a man arrested on suspicion of setting fires in the L.A. area over the last four days is loaded onto a flatbed. Police found materials in the van that could be used to set fires.

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Sherman Oaks — Firefighters knock down a carport fire that burned four cars in the 14000 block of Magnolia Boulevard.

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Sherman Oaks — Firefighters were kept busy early Monday morning when several suspicious fires similar to those set by a suspected arsonist had crews scrambling in Los Angeles, West Hollywood and other nearby areas.

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West Hollywood — Resident Heidi Schroeder takes photos at the scene where fire caused damage to an apartment house carport in West Hollywood on Sunday.

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West Hollywood — A BMW damaged by an arson fire in West Hollywood.

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West Hollywood — Los Angeles County firefighters extinguished a suspicious car fire Saturday night in a carport on North Sweetzer Avenue in West Hollywood. The carport is not attached to a building.

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West Hollywood — A West Hollywood carport after a suspicious fire there was put out by Los Angeles County firefighters.

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Hollywood — Firefighters extinguish hot spots of a fire that began Saturday night in an automobile in a carport at Fountain Avenue and North Mansfield Avenue in Hollywood.

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Hollywood — An arson investigator examines the aftermath of a fire in a carport at Fountain Avenue and North Mansfield Avenue in Hollywood.

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West Hollywood — A crowd gathers near the site of a carport fire on North Sweetzer Avenue in West Hollywood on Saturday night.

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North Hollywood — Abraham Edinjiklian looks at the damage to his wife's Mercedes-Benz in the driveway of their home in North Hollywood on Saturday. Edinjiklian said when he awoke he found the car and the gate in front of it engulfed in flames.

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Sun Valley — Nicole Powell, right, and her brother Brian, look at the damage to her 2009 Lexus in the driveway of their home in Sun Valley on Saturday. Powell said her family awoke early Saturday morning to find the car engulfed in flames.

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Sun Valley — Steve Diaz in his apartment on New Haven Street in Sun Valley, which was ravaged by smoke from a suspicious fire that damaged four units in the apartment complex and destroyed a number of cars.

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Sun Valley — Karla Eickhoff inside her apartment on New Haven Street in Sun Valley, which was damaged by a suspicious fire at the apartment complex.

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Sun Valley — Ruben Arredonodo lifts a mattress in his smoke-damaged unit on New Haven Street in Sun Valley.

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Sun Valley — Michelle Diaz leaves her apartment in Sun Valley after a suspicious fire damaged the unit, forcing her and her husband to stay with her parents.

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North Hollywood — Firefighter Keston Abe throws a vent to the ground while responding to smoke at 11689 Burbank Blvd. in North Hollywood on Saturday.

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Hollywood — Standing outside his Hollywood apartment, Shaun Reynolds, 34 says an arson fire that damaged his car early Friday "has made my tough life even worse." The unemployed heating and air conditioning installer said he's a new father and has received an eviction notice for being behind on his rent.

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Hollywood — Tenants at 1435 N. Poinsettia Place in Hollywood examine burned cars on Friday after a suspected arson fire spread from a carport to electric meters, knocking out power to their eight-unit apartment building.

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Hollywood — Tenants sit outside their apartments on N. Poinsettia Place in Hollywood, waiting for insurance adjusters and tow trucks to help them with their cars, which were damaged and destroyed by an arson fire early Friday morning.

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Hollywood — Suyapa Herrera looks from the window of her burned apartment on N. Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood while she tries to salvage her belongings.