Police investigating the arson attack on the facade of the OSP fire station in Sobota near Lwówek have identified a person suspected of the act. Junior aspirant Olga Łukaszewicz, press officer at the District Police Headquarters in Lwówek Śląski, told Lwówecki.info that, according to the officers’ findings, it was a 10-year-old boy who set fire to a pile of leaves located beside the station wall. (And therefore, setting fire to the station itself was not his aim.)
The initial losses were estimated at PLN 2,000.
The family court is to deal with the young resident of Lwówek County.
Let us recall. The incident occurred on Tuesday, in the late afternoon, in Sobota near Lwówek. Someone set fire to the facade of the fire station there. As the Lwówecki.info newspaper reported:Lwówecki.info:
Upon arrival, it turned out that the fire had engulfed the grass directly beside the building and the wall of the OSP Sobota fire station. The fire was quickly noticed and extinguished. Nevertheless, a substantial part of the facade had to be dismantled.
This was not the first incident involving this OSP. The Lwówek outlet reported:
In December 2025, an unknown perpetrator effectively disabled the fire siren by forcing glue inside the box containing its switch. Fortunately, (...) the deliberate damage was detected during a drill to activate the alarm sirens.
Earlier, in August 2023, someone painted graffiti on the OSP facade. The firefighters from Sobota have already submitted an application to the Lwówek municipal authorities to install monitoring at the site.