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September 21, 2012

Another fire called arson

By Joe Pinchot Herald Staff Writer

FARRELL — Monday, someone tried to set a fire at a vacant house at 1102 Hamilton Ave., Farrell, but it went out without doing much damage.

Thursday morning, someone got it right, setting a fire that destroyed the house, and leaped the 3-foot gap to the house next door at 1104 Hamilton, scorching its side and getting into the roof.

“It’s an arson fire,” Farrell Fire Chief Joseph Santell said, adding that Southwest Mercer County Regional and state police are investigating.

“Somebody really lit it this time, really burned it out,” he said.

“That fire was so intense it cooked the power lines out front,” said Mike Lowery, the owner of 1104.

Monday’s fire at 1102 Hamilton and another that day that destroyed a house in the 500 block of Wallis Avenue also were intentionally set, Santell said.

“It’s one of them things – you got A-holes out there,” Lowery said. “They got no respect. One of those firefighters could have gotten hurt. It’s a waste of resources and everything else.”

Lowery said no one was living at 1104, a rental property. He had just renovated it and was waiting for the carpets to be scrubbed before renting it again, he said. The building is not insured and his options are to go after the insurance company of the owner of 1102, if the owner has insurance, or knock down 1104, he said.

Elvin Nix of Pittsburgh is believed to own 1102, but city officials have been unable to reach him, Santell said. It is unknown if that house, which was unoccupied, is insured, he said.

The Nix house is the former Klein Dairy building. Some years ago, the second floor was removed and it was made a house, Santell said.

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