{"id":77188,"date":"2026-01-03T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77188\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:36:08","slug":"investigators-suspect-dog-started-modular-home-fire-in-moosic-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77188\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators suspect dog started modular home fire in Moosic Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOOSIC, Pa. \u2014 A state police fire marshal said Saturday that investigators believe a dog&#8217;s wayward paw ignited a kitchen stove <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/flames-damage-moosic-home-6th-street-heights-lackawanna-county\/523-a75b414d-7602-4984-abca-c58a34893039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">earlier in the week<\/a> in Lackawanna County, and caused a fire that spread through the home, killing the dog and two cats.<\/p>\n<p>The fire at 612 6th St., Moosic, started just before 3 p.m. on Monday. No one was home at the time other than a dog and two cats, state police fire marshals said. The fire displaced four people.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators concluded the fire started at the home&#8217;s gas stove, which they found was turned on. With the stove on, it ignited combustible material on top. Fire officials think the family dog started the fire by putting his paws on the front of the stove.<\/p>\n<p>Fire marshals ruled the blaze an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOOSIC, Pa. \u2014 A state police fire marshal said Saturday that investigators believe a dog&#8217;s wayward paw ignited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-77188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77188","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=77188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}