Updated: July 3, at 12:01 p.m.

(KUTV) - Salt Lake City fire crews are investigating two separate fires at fraternity houses near the University of Utah Campus Friday morning.



A 911 call came in from the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, near 1400 East and 100 South, from residents who reported smelling smoke inside their house.

Firefighters found a small fire on the third floor and extinguished it. While they were still at the house, a second call of a fire came from another fraternity just around the corner, Beta Theta Pi.

"I walked downstairs to where all the sprinklers were going off, and I saw there was a fire," Beta Theta Pi chapter president Kevin Shields said. "Come to find out there is another fire at a chapter like 100 yards away."

Shields said he believes the fraternity houses were targeted.

"There was a rug outside in our back yard that was leaned up against our door that was was set on fire and had gas on it," Shields said. "That's really unfortunate that someone would target us like that."

Members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity refused to speak on-camera but told 2News at the scene that they woke up after a loud bang. Another member of the chapter said there was a door that was kicked off its hinges, and he believed someone had gone up the fire escape of the home and broke in.

Investigators remained on scene several hours after firefighters left and say they "received positive hits from a detection K-9, indicating that an accelerant was used to start both fires. They are now waiting for confirmation from the crime lab.

Police were also interviewing people from the fraternity houses and ask that anyone with information about the fire call 801-799-3000.

This is a developing story, and updates will be posted as they are available.

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