Firefighters are responding to nine fires this morning in the Hollywood/West Hollywood area, all apparently started simultaneously, officials said. 
 
 "The last one was in West Hollywood," said Capt. Jaime Moore, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman, in a quick interview with The Times in an emergency vehicle with its siren shrieking in the background. "I don't have any more time to talk." 
 
 The first fires broke out shortly after 1:30 a.m. at apartment carports in the Laurel Canyon and Hollywood areas, officials said. Moore confirmed the fires to be in the 1700 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Hollywood, the 8500 block of Eastwood Road in the Hollywood Hills, the 4300 block of Greenbush Avenue and the 4200 block of Sunnyslope Avenue in Sherman Oaks. 
 
 Those calls were followed by reports of an additional five fires, though the addresses of those blazes were not immediately available. 
 
 However, the L.A. County Fire Department is tweeting that one address is 529 Alfred St. at Rosewood Avenue and includes two cars fully engulfed in flames under a carport. The address is believed to be an apartment complex. 
 
 No injuries had been reported, Moore said. 
 
 Officials said Sunday that they have linked at least 39 fires to a series of arsons that began Friday morning in Hollywood. At a news conference Sunday morning, officials said many of the fires have been started in cars and in some cases spread to carports, garages and apartments. 
 
 They declined to say what evidence tied the cases together or give more information about how the fires were set. Law enforcement sources told The Times that detectives were concerned that releasing more information could prompt the arsonist or arsonists to change tactics and could encourage copycats. 
 
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 A "person of interest" being questioned in connection with a spate of arson fires around the city was detained near a drugstore at the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, according to a witness to the incident. 
 
 Details of the man's detention were not clear, but the witness told The Times he saw swarms of Los Angeles police and Los Angeles Sheriff's Department vehicles rolling into the area. He said he later saw a man dressed in black in the back of a patrol car. 
 
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 The man had been driving a minivan when he was stopped, the witness said. 
 
 Several YouTube videos show the scene soon after the arrest. 
 
 Law enforcement sources told The Times that they believe the man being held is the same one seen in a video police released Sunday in connection with the case. An image of a man termed a "person of interest" by authorities was caught on a video that showed a car fire Saturday night inside the parking structure of the Hollywood & Highland Center on Hollywood Boulevard. 
 
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 However, in a statement, a Los Angeles fire official stressed that "it is too early to speculate if this person is responsible for the spree of arson fires." 
 
 The detention follows an early-morning frenzy of arson fires across the Hollywood area on Monday. Eleven fires were reported in two hours, beginning at 1:30 a.m., most to cars and carports in apartment complexes, police and fire officials said. 
 
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 A total of 55 fires are under investigation. 
 
 As of 5:15 a.m., the corner of Sunset and Fairfax was blocked off, with numerous police and fire vehicles parked there. It's unclear whether there had been a fire nearby. 
 
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– Another dozen fires broke out over two hours early this morning around Los Angeles, some of them apparently simultaneously, as police investigate 55 such incidents since last week. Police have now detained a "person of interest" in the crimes, believed to be the same white male between 20 and 30 years old shown in a police video released yesterday. The man was spotted walking out of an underground parking area where there was a fire Saturday, the AP reports. Still, "it is too early to speculate if this person [is] responsible for the spree of arson fires," authorities say. As with earlier fires, today's blazes were mainly in cars and carports in apartment buildings, notes the Los Angeles Times, which reports no injuries.