TWO VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS IN JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA, were arrested yesterday on arson charges following a grand jury indictment.
The fire in question occurred on March 8 and after investigation was determined to have been intentionally set. Officers believe that three men, all in their mid-twenties, deliberately set more than one fire so that two of them could race back to the fire station and respond on the fire call.
24-year-old Travis Edward Wallace from Woodville and 23-year-old Casey Duane Wilkinson from Scottsboro were both firefighters with the Woodville Volunteer Fire Department. Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies are still looking for the third suspect, 26-year-old Edward Lee Childress, who’s not a volunteer firefighter.
WAFF-TV has a video report:
