Vacant 10-Unit Foreclosed Building Goes Up In Smoke; Authorities Blame Arson

In Western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports:

• A fire that destroyed an abandoned Jeannette row house early Friday morning was arson, fire officials said. "Someone lit them. It was an arson," said Jeannette fire Chief Mike Bertolino. "There's no power, no gas, no nothing to it." [...] No injuries were reported. Bertolino said the two-story row house containing 10 units was vacant for several years. It is in foreclosure, he added.

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• The structure was demolished after the fire was extinguished, Bertolino said. Officials will contact the bank that foreclosed on the building to get the company to clean up the debris, he said.

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