LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A woman is being charged with arson after authorities said she started a fire in a duplex building.
On the afternoon of December 8, police and fire personnel were dispatched to a building on the first block of West Main Street in Ephrata for a fire.
Firefighters found a fire in the common wall of the second-floor hallway of the duplex and successfully put it out.
After interviewing neighbors and reviewing surveillance footage from a nearby business, officers named Robin Crouse, 36, as their suspect.
Crouse told police she was dealing with personal problems and admitted to breaking out second-floor windows at the duplex and starting a fire in a metal tray as a source of heat, officials said.
When the fire spread to the wall, Crouse left without notifying anyone of the fire, police said.
Crouse is presumed innocent.
