{"id":501459,"date":"2026-10-19T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501459\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:10:07","slug":"small-fire-started-on-porch-of-bishops-mansion-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501459\/","title":{"rendered":"Small fire started on porch of Bishop&#8217;s mansion in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Police and Fire responded to a small fire outside of the old Bishop\u2019s mansion on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Public Safety tells KDKA Radio that the fire had been set on the rear porch of the property on the 100 block of North Dithridge Street.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was made up of twigs and brush and had gone out by the time it was found.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say here as no property damage done, since the fire was set on a stone porch.<\/p>\n<p>A suspicious suitcase was left behind, but it was later determined to be filled with women\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Investigation Unit is working to review any camera footage from the area.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop\u2019s mansion was put up for sale by Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh after then-Bishop David Zubik moved out.<\/p>\n<p>After he was appointed Bishop nearly 20 years ago, Zubik moved out after only two weeks in the residence.<\/p>\n<p>Current Bishop Mark Eckman lives in the Bethel Park area at Resurrection Parish. <\/p>\n<p>The property was sold in 2009 to a private trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police and Fire responded to a small fire outside of the old Bishop\u2019s mansion on Monday. Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7218,194242,143,145,144,6184,20611],"class_list":["post-501459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arson","tag-bishop-s-mansion","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501459","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=501459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}