PLYMOUTH, Conn., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A volunteer firefighter and son of a local fire official in Connecticut has admitted responsibility for a string of arson fires, police said.
Brett Fennessy, a 22-year-old college student, was arraigned Wednesday on charges that include first-degree arson, The Hartford Courant reported. He has been held in lieu of $1 million bail since his arrest in September.
Fennessy's father, Stephen, is the chairman of the fire commission in Plymouth.
Investigators say that Fennessy was responsible for at least 15 fires. While some were in brush, he also allegedly set fires in three houses, a camper and three other vehicles, three barns and three garages.
Police reportedly became suspicious of him when they noticed that the fires clustered around his parents' home -- including two in their garage. In September, he predicted in an interview with police that the next blaze would be in an old barn near his parents, and investigators followed him there. He reported a fire in the barn a few minutes after he entered it.
Fennessy said that he concocted a substance he called napalm, mixing it at his parents' house or the Plymouth Company Fire House.
