Holiday, Florida -- It was all about retaliation according to the Pasco Sheriff's Office.
We're learning more about the fire that burned 40 storage units in Holiday on Monday. A Pasco detective arrested Clyde Ira Turner, 18, on Monday evening and charged him with second-degree arson and burglary of a structure.
Investigators believe it was Turner who scaled walls and jumped from roof tops like Spider-Man then setting the fire.
Turner told a detective he used gasoline to ignite the blaze Monday morning in retaliation to his mom's ex-boyfriend.
"He disabled at least one surveillance camera once he got in and according to Mr. Turner he did this in a retaliatory move against the mother's ex-boyfriend. He was going for the ex-boyfriend's storage facility," said Melanie Snow, Pasco Sheriff spokesperson.
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According to the arrest report, Turner lives just a couple miles away and works at a McDonald's not far from the Extra Storage Space facility on U.S. 19. The report says Turner brought a container of gasoline, poured it on the ex-boyfriend's property and then ignited it with a cigarette lighter.
"He ended up burning himself in the process because there was a pretty big flash from the gasoline and he escaped," Snow says. "Unfortunately, the building was a total loss but he did sustain injuries."
Turner also made more admissions to the detective about his intent that Monday morning.
"[Turner] states he left his residence this morning with the intentions of setting fire to the storage facility, bringing a hammer, a lighter and container of gasoline with him."
Turner posted bond Tuesday, while people who lost property in the fire still have not had a chance to sort through the debris to see what if anything can be salvaged.
Dawn Bernard, who lost everything in her storage unit said, "It's terrible. I mean I don't get it. Destroy somebody else's stuff. The world's pretty messed up."
10 News made several attempts to contact management of the storage facility to find out when people can go through the debris we never heard back.
