Investigators found that the fire code violations were not isolated to a single Home Depot store: Between 2018 and 2023, the 13 other Home Depot stores across Santa Clara County had been issued notices of fire code violations.

San Jose State University police initially responded at 5:18pm on March 31 to a fire on campus and determined that it had been set on purpose.

Daniel Catano is also suspected of setting at least eight other fires in Gilroy and committing an auto burglary July 10 in Morgan Hill, when one of the victims—an off-duty officer—followed the suspect, who was able to evade officers.

Witnesses on the scene of the fire alerted arriving police officers to a person suspected of starting the fire., and he was arrested and charged with arson while firefighters fought to control the blaze.

Prosecutors said the April 9 fire that destroyed $14 million worth of merchandise in a Home Depot store on Blossom Hill Road was deliberately set by a man stealing power tools who is now in custody facing arson and theft charges.

Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld of The Chabad House said the Jewish synagogue on Branham Lane in San Jose was damaged by fire after 'someone lit a fire in the carport.'