{"id":386108,"date":"2026-07-04T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:13:10","slug":"sacramento-area-arson-teen-girls-arrested-after-throwing-firecracker-into-baby-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/386108\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento-area arson: Teen girls arrested after throwing firecracker into baby nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three teenage girls were arrested on suspicion of arson<\/a> after police say they hurled a lit firecracker through a window, setting an unborn baby\u2019s nursery ablaze just two weeks before his expected arrival.<\/p>\n

The fire broke out around 7 p.m. Tuesday at a home on the 7700 block of Bierston Street in Citrus Heights, where firefighters found a mattress burning inside a bedroom, according to the Citrus Heights Police Department and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.<\/p>\n

The fire broke out around 7 p.m. Tuesday. gofundme\/Kristy Cadena<\/p>\n

Crews quickly knocked down the flames before they could spread beyond the room, but smoke damage blanketed the rest of the house.<\/p>\n

No one was hurt.<\/p>\n

The family was uninjured in the firecracker incident.<\/p>\n

For Anthony Cadena and his wife, Leslie Morgans, the room destroyed wasn\u2019t just another bedroom, it was the nursery they had spent months preparing for baby Noah, who is due in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole baby\u2019s room is torched. It\u2019s done\u2026 all the rooms in the house are covered in soot\u2026 everything,\u201d Anthony Cadena told ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three juveniles allegedly threw a firecracker into baby Noah\u2019s nursery. gofundme\/Kristy Cadena<\/p>\n

Cadena said he had been playing a video game elsewhere in the home when his wife alerted him that the house was on fire.<\/p>\n

After opening the nursery door and seeing the bed engulfed in flames, he grabbed a garden hose and, with help from a passerby, kept the blaze under control until firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n

Leslie Morgans said she was stunned that anyone could target a baby\u2019s room. gofundme\/Kristy Cadena<\/p>\n

Police said the fire stemmed from an earlier disagreement involving one of the girls who lives at the home.<\/p>\n

Leslie Morgans said she was stunned that anyone could target a baby\u2019s room.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing someone actually do that to someone\u2019s house\u2026 they saw it was a baby room\u2026 just to see that these girls just don\u2019t care about anything\u2026 it\u2019s unbelievable, honestly, that they would do something like that,\u201d she told ABC.<\/p>\n

The family said surveillance cameras captured the incident, and Anthony\u2019s mother, Nancy Cadena, believes the footage helped lead investigators to the suspects\u2019 arrests.<\/p>\n

The nursery had to be completely cleared out because it was no longer usable. gofundme\/Kristy Cadena<\/p>\n

Despite the devastating loss, Morgans said the family has chosen forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur family forgives these girls because that\u2019s what we do. We\u2019re not holding a grudge against them,\u201d Morgan said. \u201cI do hope that something happens to change their perspective. We just hope they learn their lesson from this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgans said the family has chosen forgiveness. gofundme\/Kristy Cadena<\/p>\n

A GoFundMe<\/a> organized by Anthony\u2019s sister, Kristy, says the couple had finished preparing the nursery before someone intentionally threw a firecracker through the window, igniting the fire that destroyed everything inside.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser says firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze, but the nursery had to be completely cleared out because it was no longer usable.<\/p>\n

The family is seeking help replacing baby furniture, clothing, diapers, bottles and other essentials, while also covering the cost of repairing the fire-damaged room before welcoming baby Noah home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three teenage girls were arrested on suspicion of arson after police say they hurled a lit firecracker through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[60550,7,155782,4035,4182,121,123,122,3586],"class_list":["post-386108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-babies","tag-california","tag-daredevils","tag-fireworks","tag-metro","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}