Cheyenne police have arrested a suspect in the fire that ripped through the 134-year-old Historic Pumphouse on Saturday night. Surveillance video captured a man identified as 35-year-old Christophe Carabajal slipping through a fence and climbing into the boarded-up building through a ground-floor window shortly before the fire broke out, the Cheyenne Police Department announced Friday. No one else was seen entering or leaving the property.
The historic structure was already engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived around 9:30 p.m. The blaze ripped through the roof and attic, sending flames into the night sky above the old rail corridor and drawing a large emergency response from Cheyenne Fire Rescue, the Laramie County Fire Authority, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, and police. Investigators later concluded the fire was human caused after ruling out electrical issues, environmental causes, and nearby railroad activity. The building had no utilities connected.
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