{"id":60321,"date":"2025-12-04T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60321\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:35:08","slug":"watch-employee-lit-store-shelf-on-fire-inside-packed-staten-island-shoprite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/60321\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Employee Lit Store Shelf on Fire Inside Packed Staten Island ShopRite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/vinnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/G7RmvTuXAAIAgii.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"875\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/G7RmvTuXAAIAgii-696x875.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"G7RmvTuXAAIAgii\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A 21-year-old Staten Island ShopRite employee has been arrested and charged with arson after investigators say he set a fire inside the crowded supermarket days before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vinnews.com\/2020\/01\/07\/vin-whatsapp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tJoin our WhatsApp group<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vinnews.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSubscribe to our Daily Roundup Email<\/a>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>FDNY Fire Marshals identified the suspect as Dominick Sacchetti, who they say ignited a product shelf containing paper goods during the late afternoon of Nov. 26. Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators allegedly shows Sacchetti starting the blaze, which spread rapidly and caused an estimated $100,000 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>The store was busy with holiday shoppers at the time, but a quick-thinking customer used a fire extinguisher to knock down the flames before firefighters arrived and fully extinguished the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Sacchetti faces charges including arson, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and intent to damage property.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY officials said no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ARRESTED FOR ARSON\ud83d\udea8<br \/>FDNY Fire Marshals have arrested 21-year-old Dominick Sacchetti in connection with a fire at a Staten Island ShopRite on November 26th. <\/p>\n<p>Sacchetti was an employee of the supermarket. After reviewing surveillance footage, Fire Marshals say Sacchetti started\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/owPS2z2zgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/owPS2z2zgs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FDNY (@FDNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDNY\/status\/1996333612732424646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A 21-year-old Staten Island ShopRite employee has been arrested and charged with arson after investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-60321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}