1.   Accelerant to light the fire was placed just feet from the mountains preserve.

2.   From mean street to mountain preserve, they dot the Valley landscape in surprising numbers and infinite variety.

3.   He considered telling Mark Sands that he had just secretly tape-recorded Sands confessing to a notorious string of arson-caused fires near mountain preserves.

4.   Maybe you hiked into the mountain preserves, where there are no fences topped in barbed wire and no locked gates.

5.   Mayor Mary Manross said the residents of Scottsdale, who voted to tax themselves for the mountain preserve, should be included in the honors.

6.   A man was arrested Thursday on arson and extortion charges stemming from a series of fires that destroyed luxury homes under construction near desert mountain preserves.

7.   The fires have occurred at the foot of a desert mountain preserve in north-central Phoenix, where urban sprawl and environmental protection meet face to face.