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Night. He has yet to be identified, but im told police will be giving more details sometime tomorrow. As we were first to report last week on this string of arsons, this suspect has been connected to at least a dozen fires. Occupy buildings and dumpsters. Julie, this has obviously kept the San FranciscoFire Departments arson unit extremely busy over the past few weeks. This has been their top priority. During my reporting, i have learned this has been a unit that has all but been eliminated. Efforts are underway to try to bring back this unit to full force. Restoring funding for the arson positions. Reporter she pleaded with supervisors to bring back the investigatorss cut. It use to be a two person per shift unit, and that funding was defunded in 2009. Reporter thats when the department shedded units, from 11 to 4. One person per shift. It created adverse operational im ....