DREXEL HILL, Pa. – A 19-year-old unemployed woman is charged with setting seven fires in her suburban Philadelphia community.
Police say Amanda Gessner touched off blazes in trash and brush between 3 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. Tuesday within blocks of where she lives in Upper Darby Township.
One fire damaged a home where a family of four was sleeping. They escaped without injury.
Officials say Gessner was witnessed earlier in the evening at a local convenience store singing, "The fire department is going to be mad at me." Her singing was caught on the store's surveillance camera.
Gessner is being held on $100,000 bail, charged with arson and related offenses.
Authorities say they have no reason to believe she is connected to the recent arsons in Coatesville, a few miles away.
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