{"id":26217,"date":"2025-11-06T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:04:09","slug":"15-year-old-girl-killed-in-pennsylvania-camper-fire-was-known-for-bright-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26217\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old girl killed in Pennsylvania camper fire was known for “bright” smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old girl killed in a camper fire in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is being remembered for her “bright” smile and “joy of life.”<\/p>\n

Paige Dowlin was killed in the camper fire at Roamers Retreat Campground on Lincoln Highway in Salisbury Township on Saturday morning, according to a news release from Pennsylvania State Police<\/a>. State police said when first responders arrived at the scene around 4 a.m., the camper was fully engulfed in flames, and the teen was found dead inside it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Multiple fire departments responded to the scene. The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the state police fire marshal. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Further information will be disseminated as it becomes available,” the news release from state police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to PennLive.com<\/a>, the 15-year-old girl died from smoke inhalation and thermal burns, and her death was ruled an accident. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Lancaster County teen killed in fire remembered\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dowlin, according to her obituary<\/a>, was a 10th grader at Pequea Valley High School. She also sang in the chorus, participated in the school’s color guard and was a member of her church’s youth group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She was known for her bright smile, her joy of life, her positive outlook and will be missed dearly by anyone that knew her,” her obituary said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her obituary said she died in a “home fire.” She leaves behind her parents, Kevin Dowlin Sr. and Jennifer L. Reid, her sister, Abrianna Dowlin, and her two brothers, Damien Sexton and Kevin Dowlin Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old girl killed in a camper fire in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is being remembered for her “bright”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9521,422,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-26217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-fatal-fire","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","12":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26217","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=26217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}