The Rochester Fire Department’s Arson Task Force has charged a Georgia man with setting fire to a house at 82 Danforth Street.
The department says 27-year-old Victor Watkins of Atlanta dragged a couch from a first floor living room out onto the front porch early Saturday morning and set it on fire. Multiple smoke alarms went off, alerting the residents at about 4:12 a.m. A mother and her four young children escaped from the burning house.
Investigators determined the fire had been deliberately set after Watkins got into a domestic dispute with the mother. Watkins was located and arrested by Rochester Police and is currently waiting on arraignment.