"The Third Time's A Charm" As Town Finally Demolishes Vacant Foreclosed Home After Being Torched Three Times In Two Months

In Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, The Trentonian reports:

• An unoccupied home in the township's Croydon section was demolished [earlier this week] after it apparently met with an arsonist's flames for the third time in two months. [...] The home, which had been lost to foreclosure in July of last year, was burned in two previous arson fires, one on April 23, then again in mid-May. "It's just too much," said Laura Haertter, whose home across the street from the targeted house was damaged in this third round of likely arson. "Three times? Arson three times? It's just ridiculous. We begged everybody to tear it down, but no one would do it."

Reportedly, there was extensive damage to some of the surrounding homes and one neighbor had two cars destroyed in the fire.

For more, see Third blaze in two months.

For other recent stories on foreclosure homes going up in smoke, see:

• Birmingham, Alabama: Fire destroys house in eastern Birmingham (A Birmingham fire department official said the house was under foreclosure, but was occupied by as many as eight people - I wonder if they overloaded the electrical sockets),

• Orlando, Florida: Orange County Home In Foreclosure Found Burning By Neighbor (Firefighters had to spray water on nearby homes to keep the hot fire from spreading. No one is currently living in the home, which neighbors say is in foreclosure).