{"id":397471,"date":"2026-09-12T01:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397471\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:18:12","slug":"woman-suffers-burns-after-suspect-lights-fire-at-gas-station-in-st-petersburg-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397471\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman suffers burns after suspect lights fire at gas station in St. Petersburg | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A woman pumping gas at a St. Petersburg gas station ended up seriously hurt after police say a stranger set her car on fire.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 8:00 p.m. Thursday at the Mobil Gas Station on 101 40th Ave. North, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1539147844923963&amp;set=pb.100064862855353.-2207520000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Authorities say<\/a> Eleanor Crawford, 40, walked up to the victim and used a lighter to deliberately ignite gasoline while the woman was fueling her SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle went up in flames and the victim suffered second-degree burns before being taken to Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested Crawford just a couple of blocks away shortly after and she now faces two arson charges.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the two women did not know each other and the motive remains unclear as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A woman pumping gas at a St. Petersburg gas station ended up seriously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,1288,104924,52276,202,204,203,199,201,200,158430,3871,38979],"class_list":["post-397471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida","tag-gas-station","tag-mobil-gas-station","tag-pump","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-suspect-lights-gas-pump","tag-tampa-general-hospital","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}