Suspect charged for destructive fire at historic downtown Portland church

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – The Portland Police Bureau has arrested an individual suspected of beginning a damaging hearth on the former Portland Korean Church on Tuesday.

The blaze erupted on the 933 SW Clay Avenue constructing simply after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and took 80 firefighters to get the hearth below management.

Hearth crews have been unable to get inside shortly because the constructing had been marked as unsafe, with holes within the flooring from earlier fires. Crews attacked the hearth from the surface and through the use of ladder vans.

On Wednesday, suspect Cameron David Storer (additionally known as Nicolette Fait), 27, was taken into custody after an investigation by the Portland Hearth & Rescue Hearth Investigations Unit. Storer was charged with Arson I, Arson II, and Housebreaking II.

Metropolis information present the deserted church is presently owned by Hadi Nouredine, a Beaverton dentist. FOX 12 visited Dr. Nouredine’s dental workplace and our crews have been informed he was not obtainable to talk on the time. Employees on the dentist’s workplace confirmed Nouredine is the proprietor of the church.

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