Fox Information Christmas tree in New York Metropolis set ablaze, man arrested By Reuters

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Fox News Christmas tree in New York City set ablaze, man arrested

© Reuters. Staff clear up the burnt stays of a Christmas tree exterior the Information Corp. and Fox Information constructing in New York Metropolis, New York, U.S. December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

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(Reuters) – New York police arrested a person on Wednesday on suspicion that he had set on hearth a 50-foot-tall Christmas tree exterior the Fox Information headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

Fox Information safety personnel referred to as police shortly after midnight once they noticed a person climbing the tree situated at Sixth Avenue and forty eighth Road, police mentioned.

When officers arrived on the scene they noticed a person, recognized as Craig Tamanaha, 49, operating from the tree and arrested him. He faces a number of prices, together with arson, trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Firefighters extinguished the fireplace. Nobody was injured within the incident.

The purple, white and blue-themed tree was embellished with 10,000 glass ornaments and 100,000 lights and was lit in a ceremony on Sunday. It took staff 21 hours to assemble, the community mentioned.

“We is not going to let this deliberate and brazen act of cowardice deter us,” FOX Information Media CEO Suzanne Scott mentioned in an announcement. “We’re within the strategy of rebuilding and putting in a brand new tree as a message that there might be peace, mild and pleasure even throughout a darkish second like this.”

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