A radical environmental group was suspected of setting fire to luxury homes near Seattle, police said on Monday.
The blazes, which started earlier in the day, burned 4 multimillion-U.S.-dollar show homes in a suburb north of Seattle, according to police. There was no report of injuries.
The blazes were suspicious because they were set in multiple places in separate houses, said Chief Rick Eastman of Snohomish County District Seven.
Eastman said authorities found a spray-painted sign which read, "Built Green? Nope black!"
The sign had the initials of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which is a loosely organized collection of radical environmentalists.
The group was blamed for other arsons in the Northwest, including the fire at the University of Washington in 2001.
Monday's fire was one of the most notorious in a string of arsons that investigators say were perpetrated from the mid-1990s to 2001 by ELF.
Source:Xinhua
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