Headlines 13 April 2025

No one injured in arson fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro's home

By Dan McCaleb
The Center Square

No one was injured in what authorities are investigating as arson early Sunday at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's house in Harrisburg.

State Police said the 2 a.m. fire was arson. Shapiro and his family, home at the time, were in a different part of the house from the fire and evacuated safely.

The investigation is ongoing. Damage was significant.

A statement from the troopers said, "While the investigation is ongoing, the State Police is prepared to say at this time that this was an act of arson. While the fire was successfully extinguished, it caused a significant amount of damage to a portion of the residence."

The governor's residence is on North Front Street.

Shapiro, on social media, wrote, "Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg. The Harrisburg Bureau of Fire was on the scene and while they worked to put out the fire, we were evacuated from the Residence safely by Pennsylvania State Police and assisted by Capitol Police. Thank God no one was injured and the fire was extinguished."

Add new comment

This is not for publication.
This is not for publication.
About text formats

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
Article comments are not posted immediately to the Web site. Each submission must be approved by the Web site editor, who may edit content for appropriateness. There may be a delay of 24-48 hours for any submission while the web site editor reviews and approves it. Note: All information on this form is required. Your telephone number and email address is for our use only, and will not be attached to your comment.
CAPTCHA This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.