"It Just Happened to Be There, Standing by the Side of the Freeway"

"In other words, the arsonist who stopped at the side of the 110 freeway could scarcely have found a bigger pile of wood to set on fire. Perhaps that's what made him stop, get out of his car and crawl into the half-finished building for a look around. Perhaps that's why he came back, with a plan to burn it down."

Hillel Aron in the LA Weekly tells the story of the 2014 fire that struck an under-construction apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles.