
A 61-year-old man is facing arson charges in connection with four suspicious fires in five days in and near a park in southwest Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa resident James Conforti was arrested on Friday night. Police say he lit a fire near the campus of an elementary school that afternoon. The fire burned about a quarter-acre of land behind Meadow View Elementary School before firefighters put it out. The three other fires happened last Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, in different areas of nearby Southwest Community Park. The fires, combined, burned less than one acre of land. Conforti is facing four counts of arson.