Suspicious Fire Torches 20 Cars On Hertz Lot In Salt Lake City

Firefighters are investigating an overnight fire in a rental car lot at Salt Lake City International Airport as arson. It happened around 12:30 a.m. in a small auto lot Hertz uses to maintain its vehicles. It’s a big loss for Hertz. 20 rental cars were damaged or destroyed in the early Sunday morning fire. “From the time we were dispatched to the time that we got there, was right around 3 1/2 to 4 minutes, and in that time it had probably grown to double the size,” Captain Kyle Lavender with Salt Lake City Fire Department Station No. 11 said. “These are cars that are parked bumper to bumper and with the winds we had last night and the heat the cars were giving off it was spreading quickly,” Lavender said.