October 17, 2022 10:00 a.m.

Roseburg Police are investigating a Saturday arson incident.

An RPD report said just before 1:15 a.m. officers spotted smoke and flames in the wildlife area of the duck pond near the 1000 block of Northwest Garden Valley Boulevard. A camp belonging to a 43-year old transient was burning. The Roseburg Fire Department responded to assist officers in knocking down the fire with extinguishers.

The report said characteristics of the fire indicated it may have been intentionally set. Officers made phone contact with the transient who had the camp, and confirmed that he was not injured and apparently had not been at the camp when the fire began.