Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs A man has been arrested following a public appeal for information into a series of mysterious, random blazes lit around Sydney’s eastern suburbs.Just after 3am on Tuesday, March 18, locals on Reddy Street in Edgecliff woke to a car bursting into flames.Police are hunting for a man they believe can assist their investigation into a Paddington firebug.Credit: NSW PolicePolice and firefighters arrived to find a Mitsubishi SUV ablaze. The fire was extinguished, but the car was destroyed.Just 10 minutes later police located a burnt chair at the intersection of Glenmore Road and Cascade Street in Paddington.Police believe the fires may be linked to another blaze in September 2024, when a rubbish bin was set alight on Jersey Road – also in Paddington.A 20-year-old man was arrested at Waverley Police Station on Friday afternoon. It came just hours after police released vision of a man caught on CCTV near the fires who they wished to speak to.Police are looking to speak to this man about a string of eastern suburbs fires. Credit: NSW Police Crime manager at Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command, Detective Inspector Adam Solah, said the fires were not believed to be “sinister” in motive. They are also not believed to be linked to a spate of firebombing and antisemitic graffiti now suspected to be a “con job” fabricated by organised criminals.“The attacks appeared to be random,” he said.
