Stamford police have arrested a man accused of setting fire to his own home on Wednesday.
Firefighters responded to 52 Highland Road at 12:40 p.m. after receiving a report that a man poured gasoline into the back hall of the multifamily home.
Police responded soon after and Sgt Russell Gladwin spotted Anthony Manousos, 33, walking out of a vacant lot on Highland Avenue.
Manousos was detained and identified as the man seen running from 52 Highland Road, police said. They later determined that he owns the house.
No one was hurt during the fire, but the house sustained heat and smoke damage.
Police said the resident who was home at the time escaped through the front of the house and crews extinguished the fire before it spread from the back of the house.
Manousos was charged with first-degree arson and bond was set a $500,000.
Online assessor’s records list the house as a four-family home worth $617,650.
