NORTH BRADDOCK, Pa. — Allegheny County police are questioning a woman accused of setting a couple’s North Braddock home on fire Wednesday afternoon as an act of revenge.
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"She showed up at the house, threatening to do something to them, and she must have waited until she left,” said Sheena Smith.
Smith said her daughter and son-in-law had recently gotten back together. Her son-in-law moved back into the North Braddock home just hours before the home was engulfed in flames.
The couple told Channel 11's Courtney Brennan that they went to the mall and received a phone call a short time later about their home being on fire.
"She was getting her phone number changed so they could start over, and this is what happened,” said Smith.
Firefighters battled the two-alarm fire and were eventually able to gain control of the flames.
Smith said before the fire, police came to the couple’s home, because a woman her son-in-law just broke up with showed up unannounced. The woman left before authorities arrived.
"They both told me that the police had already been here today, and they told them that she was going to do something. She was going to burn the house down, because that's what she told them,” said Smith.
Smith said the only bright spot is that her daughter and son-in-law didn’t lose their lives.
Brennan learned late Wednesday that Allegheny County police were interviewing the woman suspected in starting the fire. So far, no charges have been filed.
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