Another Home In Foreclosure Goes Up In Smoke

In Northampton County, Pennsylvania, The Allentown Morning Call reports:

• A house headed for a mortgage foreclosure sale in two weeks was destroyed by a fire in Wind Gap early Wednesday morning. Borough police, firefighters and a state police fire marshal were looking for the homeowner, Nelson Tittle, and they spent hours sifting through his charred modular home [...] to make certain he was not killed. Shortly before noon, Police Chief Craig Armitage said searchers had not found him.

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• Armitage said the cause of the fire has not been determined by state police Fire Marshal Michael Booke. ''As of right now, I'm still marking it as under investigation,'' he said. ''I can't say where he's going to turn up or what his status is.''

For more, see Home headed to foreclosure charred (Fire officials seeking cause of Wind Gap blaze. Resident missing).