Three cars were set on fire outside a home early Wednesday morning and Hickory police are searching for the person who did it.According to Libby Grigg, spokesperson for the Hickory Police Department, Peter Sanders heard banging on the door of his home on Seventeenth Street, SW, at about 2:30 a.m.

Sanders looked out the front door, but didn’t see anything, she said, so he looked out the windows.

Grigg said Sanders saw one of the vehicles in his driveway, a Saturn, on fire.

Sanders went to get something to extinguish the fire, and by the time he went outside to the vehicles, two other cars in the driveway, a Toyota Camry and a Honda Civic, also  were on fire.

The fires caused a total of $4,000 in damage to the vehicles, and Hickory police are calling it arson, Grigg said.