April 15, 2026

A huge six-alarm blaze tore through a Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario, California, and investigators now say it was no accident: federal authorities accuse 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim of deliberately igniting the 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center, filming himself as he set pallets of paper goods ablaze while raging over wages. Abdulkarim, who worked at the site through a third-party logistics provider, has pleaded not guilty to federal and state charges as prosecutors say the inferno caused roughly $500 million in damage — a staggering toll in a case now being probed as suspected arson.

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