Warehouse fire now being blamed on two homeless men. This from the NY Times.

Two homeless men who were burning the insulation off some copper wiring so they could sell it sparked a massive fire that destroyed a historic Brooklyn warehouse complex last month, the authorities said.

One of the men, Leszek Kuczera, 59, was arrested earlier today and charged with arson, burglary, reckless endangerment and petit larceny, the police said. The second man, whose identity was withheld, was still being sought.

The police said that Mr. Kuczera confessed last night to starting the fire, and was scheduled to be arraigned later today in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Officials said the 10-alarm fire at the Greenpoint Terminal Market on May 2 was the city’s biggest — excluding the World Trade Center disaster — since a fire at Brooklyn’s St. George Hotel in 1995. The huge plume of roiling black smoke, visible for miles, reminded many New Yorkers of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It took nearly 36 hours to extinguish the warehouse fire, and the smoldering ruins of the unoccupied buildings smoked for days.