RESENDING SCRIPT WITH CORRECTED SOURCING ONSCENE.TV, NOT ONSITE.TV<br/> ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> PLEASE NOTE THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> Video shot by onscene.tv showed firefighters battling a number of arson fires early on Monday morning (January 2) in the neigbourhoods of Los Angeles. The police and fire department believe these were part of a string of arson attacks.<br/> Police arrested a man on Monday in connection with a wave of 53 arson fires targeting cars and structures, which caused more than 2 million US dollars in damages and left nerves in the second-largest U.S. city badly frayed.<br/> Police declined to identify the man but said he was taken into custody in Hollywood after a sheriff's deputy spotted him driving a van similar to one being sought in connection with the fires.<br/> Most of the fires were thought to have been started by the same arsonist in cars and some spread to carports and homes.
