Possible Suspicious Fires Investigated

HENDERSON — The Henderson Fire Department is looking into three fires that occurred within a two-mile radius of each other Friday night in Henderson. The first blaze occurred about 4:30 p.m. Friday at a storage facility near the intersection of U.S. Highway 259 North and Texas Highway 322. Local fire departments were called to another structure fire about 6 p.m. near Lakewood Memorial Cemetery just off Texas Highway 64. A third fire occurred about a mile north of Loop 571 on Farm-to-Market Road 2276 just before 10 p.m. Authorities say the first two fires were contained rather quickly and parts of those structures were able to be saved, but the structure on FM 2276 was a total loss. The Henderson Daily News reports, the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office will be taking charge of the two fires outside the city limits, while the other will be investigated by Henderson Police Department detectives.