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Cops: Ex-worker starts fire inside Babylon Carriage House

He entered the restaurant through a rear door and, once inside, smashed office equipment and electronics and placed "combustible items" on top of lit stove burners, starting a fire, police said.

But the former employee of the Babylon Carriage House didn't get far. Alerted by noise and the activation of fire alarms, the restaurant manager secured all the doors not long after Douglas Hopkins...

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