The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in ...

The irony is that the firebug — John Orr — was someone entrusted ... real 1984 fire at Ole’s Home Center in South Pasadena. The Ole’s fire had originally been ruled an accident.

Orr is a Code Enforcement Officer for the Village of Chester Building Department and a Fire Investigator for Orange County.

Schools in the Pasadena Unified School District will be reopened in phases over a two-week period in the aftermath of the deadly Eaton Fire.

A 1988 photo of John Orr, when he was a celebrated arson investigator with the Glendale Fire Department ... the fatal hardware store blaze in South Pasadena, John Orr materialized and began ...