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Eastern Iowa fire chief charged with arson

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April 24th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — The assistant chief of the Oxford Fire Department in eastern Iowa’s Johnson County is facing arson charges. The Johnson County Sheriff’s office says 30-year-old Timothy Hora was found trying to stomp out the flames of a grass fire just after 11 o’clock on April 13th. Court records show a torch that was still warm was found in the back of Hora’s truck. Hora was charged with O-W-I and later released. The investigation into several other grass and vegetation fires led them back to Hora, as information from the G-P-S showed his truck in the area of those fires. He has been charged with five counts of arson.