A Prince Frederick, Maryland, man who films fire-related emergencies for social media content was arrested and charged on Friday on charges related to intentionally setting a vacant building on fire and alerting first responders to the scene, state officials say. The vacant commercial building was set on fire on Feb. 22 in Newburg, Maryland, according to a release from the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal. The fire was extinguished within a matter of minutes after first responders with the Newburg Volunteer Fire Company and surrounding departments arrived on the scene at about 8:30 p.m. With the Office of the State Fire Marshal tapped to investigate the blaze, officials determined the fire had been intentional. It wasnโt until investigators traced the initial 911 call about the fire that 21-year-old social media hobbyist Joshua Christian-Stanley Jackson was pinpointed as a suspect. Also directing investigators to Jackson was a social media post in which the suspect said he discovered the Newburg fire while returning from a DoorDash delivery in King George County, Virginia. Jackson had described the fireโs progression in detail.
