{"id":15260,"date":"2026-04-09T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/15260\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:11:11","slug":"ontario-warehouse-arson-suspect-posted-live-video-showing-fire-igniting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/15260\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario warehouse arson suspect posted live video showing fire igniting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The suspect in a massive blaze at an Ontario warehouse<\/a> posted videos that appeared to show him lighting the fire and griping about being paid low wages, according to video reviewed by The Times.<\/p>\n

Crews responded to the 1.2-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark paper products facility early Tuesday morning and were quickly forced out due to \u201cextremely rapid fire growth,\u201d according to the Ontario Fire Department.<\/p>\n

The fire caused the building\u2019s roof to collapse and escalated to a six-alarm blaze, requiring the response of around 175 firefighters and evacuation of about 20 employees.<\/p>\n

Ontario Police Cpl. Emily Williams told KTLA that police were investigating the video. \u201cWe have had reports that he did give some information on social media,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n

Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, of Highland was arrested in connection with the blaze, according to authorities. Abdulkarim was employed by NFI Industries, a third-party distribution company for Kimberly-Clark products, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

On his non-public Facebook page, Abdulkarim had shared several first-person videos in which a man \u2014 presumably Abdulkarim \u2014 is seen lighting fires in a warehouse. Alex Montero, who said he met Abdulkarim in the warehouse that night, obtained screen recordings of the videos by way of a mutual friend on Facebook.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, if you\u2019re not going to pay us enough … to afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this,\u201d the man says while lighting a roll of toilet paper on fire.<\/p>\n

In a subsequent video, the person filming continued to light fires as radios in the background relay fire reports and evacuation instructions to employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you had to do is pay us enough to live,\u201d the narrator says as the camera focuses on several stacks of paper products beginning to catch fire. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere goes your inventory,\u201d he says in a final video as the flames began to spread out of control.<\/p>\n

The Ontario Police Department did not immediately respond to questions from The Times about the videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was him that posted himself doing it,\u201d Montero wrote in an email to The Times, referring to the videos. \u201cIf not, I wouldn\u2019t have put it out there like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Times staff writers Clara Harter and Joseph Serna contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in a massive blaze at an Ontario warehouse posted videos that appeared to show him lighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9909,9911,6117,7637,9912,6369,8,9916,9914,9913,9,9915,9910,3347,1099,3228,7,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-15260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-chamel-abdulkarim","9":"tag-emily-williams","10":"tag-employee","11":"tag-evacuation","12":"tag-facebook-page","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-kimberly-clark-product","16":"tag-live-video","17":"tag-massive-blaze","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ontario-fire-department","20":"tag-ontario-warehouse-arson-suspect","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-report","23":"tag-times","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116372090559376649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}