From WECT:
Just days before Christmas, a masked man was caught on video setting fire to a Nativity scene. It happened outside of a California home where an altar the family built two decades ago is now damaged. “I’m sad, I don’t know why people do this,” homeowner Leticia Salcedo said. Surveillance video shows how the person did it.
Last Friday, at about 3:30 a.m. a masked man in a hoodie walks past the home and starts dousing the altar with a liquid. Moments later, he lights what appears to be paper or cloth on fire, before tossing it into the altar and walking away. The wooden planks on the altar’s right side are now burned along with vases that held plastic flowers. But amid the ashes, something remarkable in what was not burned.