After two straight days of brush fires breaking out on Staten Island, the Fire Department is looking into whether the fires were set on purpose. on Friday, there were several fires in Oakwood Beach and yesterday, there were fires in Ocean Breeze, New Corp Beach, Midland Beach and South Beach, where there was a four-alarm fire. No civilians were injured (one firefighter was injured) and no homes were damaged. Deputy Chief Roger Sakowich said of yesterday's blazes, "If they were closer together we would have said there was a good chance it could have jumped. This area, it was a very large area, and it leads us to believe it was possibly suspicious."
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