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Portland police and firefighters responded to three fires that were intentionally set in recycling bins in East Bayside early Sunday morning, police said.

Someone set the fires between 2:05 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. in the area of 100 Washington Street and on Greenleaf Street, said David Singer, a spokesman for the Portland Police department.

All of them were quickly extinguished by firefighters, and damage was contained to the plastic bins, Singer said. The matter remains under investigation, he said. No one was injured.

Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau....

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