{"id":297865,"date":"2026-10-01T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297865\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:22:08","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-starting-dumpster-fire-that-damaged-home-in-lancaster-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297865\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for allegedly starting dumpster fire that damaged home in Lancaster County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A man was arrested on Sept. 10 for starting a dumpster fire in Lancaster County.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Levinson, 46, reportedly started a dumpster fire in a parking lot that spread to a nearby house in the 900 block of North Queen Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said surveillance footage showed Levinson approaching the dumpster and putting trash into it before looking around to check if anyone was around. He then reportedly reached back into the dumpster and started to walk away as the trash began to smoke, according to Manheim Township Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the smoke turned into a large fire inside the dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>Manheim Township Fire Rescue responded to the scene and extinguished the fire. Officials said damage was seen on the roof of a nearby house that was within ten feet of the dumpster.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently facing charges for arson and related offenses. <\/p>\n<p>Levinson was arraigned and released on $50,000 unsecured bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A man was arrested on Sept. 10 for starting a dumpster fire in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-297865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297865","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=297865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}