{"id":14274,"date":"2025-10-25T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:03:09","slug":"man-charged-with-setting-fire-to-pittsburgh-home-while-3-people-were-inside-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14274\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with setting fire to Pittsburgh home while 3 people were inside \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man was arrested after allegedly setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/fire-damages-house-pittsburghs-windgap-neighborhood\/AJUYTX3SPBBNPCH3MCW7BKVDXQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/fire-damages-house-pittsburghs-windgap-neighborhood\/AJUYTX3SPBBNPCH3MCW7BKVDXQ\/\">fire to a home in Pittsburgh\u2019s Windgap neighborhood<\/a> while three people were inside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-fire-damages\/CJPZY244SNALFI4XPQPYPWDTVA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/photos-fire-damages\/CJPZY244SNALFI4XPQPYPWDTVA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for photos from the scene<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Fire crews were called to the 3800 block of Windgap Avenue around 9:16 p.m. on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">When firefighters arrived on scene, three people who were inside had already escaped safely out the back of the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Fire officials said the fire originated on the front porch, which investigators determined was suspicious in nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A suspect, who was identified as Timothy Hamilton, 45, was detained in Kennedy Township and taken to Pittsburgh Police Headquarters for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Court documents say Hamilton was seen on video kicking and banging on the home\u2019s front door, trying to get a woman to come home with him before the fire broke out. The victim told police Hamilton was being abusive. She added that the banging on her door stopped and then they heard a loud boom, like something had hit the door. Seconds later, the porch erupted in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said three adults and a dog managed to escape through the back door as the house became fully engulfed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Hamilton was arrested and is facing multiple felony arson charges. He was taken to the Allegheny County Jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a home in Pittsburgh\u2019s Windgap neighborhood while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10820,36,10828,10829,4304,422,10824,10827,10823,10822,10831,10830,861,139,859,73,75,74,10826,420,10821,10825,860],"class_list":["post-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-alyssa_raymond","tag-arson","tag-brian_shelaby","tag-castle_shannon","tag-channel","tag-fire","tag-fire_department","tag-hamilton","tag-kara","tag-kara_zapata","tag-karapaa","tag-lakin_sheleby","tag-lisa_sylvester","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-timothy_hamilton","tag-video","tag-wind_gap","tag-windap_avenue","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}