BRADDOCK, Pa. — Investigators say a woman lit her ex-boyfriend’s house on fire in Braddock on Monday, a blaze that also threatened to hurt a neighbor.
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Ronald McCrae said Alexis Rodgers sent him a text message that day that said, “Now, I burned your house down. LOL.”
The North Braddock woman had the couple’s two young children with her when she started the fire on Seddon Avenue, and allegedly told police she used her son’s undershirt as fuel, lighting it and shoving it in the mail slot in the front door.
“I was raised here,” McCrae said, standing in front of the destroyed home.
He said she knew his two dogs were in the house at the time.
“The firefighters were fortunate enough to get both dogs out,” he said.
A neighbor who didn't want to be identified said she was rescued by another neighbor.
"She ran down here, grabbed my coat, grabbed the blanket and took me out in my wheelchair,” she said. "She's really my lifesaver."