Unknown suspects setting fires downtown

On 6/24/14 at approximately 12:13 a.m., an officer with the Eureka Police Department located two adjacent trash cans on fire near the 600 block of 6^th Street.  Humboldt Bay Fire Department (HBFD) was requested and the fires were soon extinguished. No damage was done to the exterior of the nearby buildings.  The area was checked but no witnesses or suspects were located. 

On 06/22/14 at approximately 4:02 a.m. an officer with EPD found a fully engulfed dumpster on fire near the 700 block of 3^rd Street.  At approximately 4:43 a.m. a small dumpster fire was reported by a citizen near the 100 block of 5^th Street.  Both locations were searched but no suspects were located.