{"id":195965,"date":"2026-05-18T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195965\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:32:08","slug":"police-scranton-man-set-fire-to-home-with-mother-inside-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195965\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Scranton man set fire to home with mother inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Scranton;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Scranton&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Scranton<\/a> man set fire to his home Saturday while his elderly mother was still inside, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ryan Patrick Gething, 48, was jailed Monday at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $30,000 bail. he has a preliminary hearing tentatively scheduled May 27 on charges of arson, risking catastrophe, simple assault and harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City police accused Gething of pushing his 83-year-old mother to the ground during a dispute just after 6 a.m. Saturday and then setting fire to papers in an attempt to catch the rest of their house on the 1800 block of Ash Street. The house filled with smoke. Gething&#8217;s mother, Rosemary Gething, escaped and contacted the police.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the house, authorities found stacks of burnt paper on two stove stops, a red gas can in the living room and a cooking pot full of fluid that smelled like liquid gas in a bedroom next to the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rosemary Gething was not hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scranton man set fire to his home Saturday while his elderly mother was still inside, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[87030,87031,87029,178,180,179,36341],"class_list":["post-195965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-elderly-mother","tag-rosemary-gething","tag-ryan-patrick-gething","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-setting-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195965","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=195965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}