Two Washington State University students have been arrested for a series of eight fires set around campus Sunday night, WSU Police Chief Bill Gardner said.

David P. Miner and Ian J. Copland are being charged with five counts of first-degree arson and four counts of reckless burning in the second degree. “Arson in the first degree is about as big as it gets,” Gardner said.

There was no evidence of accelerants in the fires. One fire was in a Kimbrough Hall dumpster. Another involved an area of shrubbery approximately 20 by 25 feet along College Avenue near Owen Science Library, Pullman Fire Department Captain Scott Van Ness said. Officers responded to the fire near the library at about 1:45 a.m.

In the Fine Arts Building parking structure there was a fire in a garbage can and one in the Zen staircase. The other four were at the Stephenson Complex.