Winnipeg police have arrested a 49-year-old man who they say confessed to setting two fires Friday at his home and a downtown office building.

Jonathan Roger Hein surrendered at police headquarters late Friday afternoon, police said Sunday.

Hein told officers that earlier on Friday afternoon he poured gasoline inside his home in the 200 block of Pritchard Avenue and ignited it, causing an explosion that blew him out of the house. The blaze spread to a neighbouring home, forcing residents to evacuate. Hein was not injured.

He fled, then bought more gasoline at a nearby convenience store, police said. He allegedly poured it in the lobby of an office building in the 300 block of Donald Street and set it on fire. Employees escaped unharmed, but the lobby sustained significant damage.

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