Brian Frizzell, father of Haley Frizzell who died in the Iconic Village fire, speaks during the Thursday press conference.
Daily Record photo by Dalton Sweat
Belinda Moats Top, pictured are the five young people who died in the Iconic Village fire, that occurred in the early morning hours of July 20, 2018. The arrest Wednesday of Jacobe Ferguson, who was residing at the Iconic Village apartment complex in 2018, was the first arrest in the nearly five-year-old case. Photos provided by city of San Marcos.
Fire investigators point to mattress as cause
San Marcos police and fire investigators said the combustible material that caused a fire that killed five, seriously injured others and displaced more than 200 residents of the Iconic Village apartment complex in San Marcos in July 2018–the deadliest in the city’s history–was a discarded mattress.