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berwyn firebug does it again….in york pa

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for story, follow this link: https://local21news.com/news/local/woman-charged-with-arson-in-connection-with-york-county-duplex-fire-that-displaced-7-pa-pennsylvania-fire-blaze-ogontz-street-new-years-day

I think this might break the Chester County Internet. I had readers contact me this afternoon…oops she did it again. For real.

https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/woman-charged-arson-new-years-fire-displaced-5-people

I mean FOR real? Burned a 3rd place? I mean I JUST HAVE to oops song it.

This is scary and ridiculous.

First Berwyn (Easttown).

Then Radnor Township (whatever that was.)

Now York.

Oh, and the DUI in SC?

She is literally not right, is she? If someone has already set fires and the courts are taking forever to get the cases heard is that fair to anyone?

How does someone go from beautiful young doctor/bride/wife/mother to the mugshots? And she was a doctor too?

Why do we have such inadequate mental health services in this country?

https://local21news.com/news/local/woman-charged-with-arson-in-connection-with-york-county-duplex-fire-that-displaced-7-pa-pennsylvania-fire-blaze-ogontz-street-new-years-day

Original fire:

https://6abc.com/post/chester-county-fire-easttown-township-leopard-sugartown-road/15090808

House in December (my photo):

Photo from CBS affiliate (note the apartment is Tudor-ish):

Stuff from South Carolina:

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/06/woman-charged-with-arson-in-york-area-fire-also-charged-near-philly/88047015007

Woman charged with arson in York-area fire also charged near Philly

Aimee Ambrose

York Dispatch

Updated Jan. 6, 2026, 4:31 p.m. ET

  • A woman is charged with arson after she allegedly used a heat gun to start a fire New Year’s Day at a Spring Garden Township duplex.
  • A firefighter was injured in that blaze and another resident was treated for smoke inhalation.
  • Kathryn Frankel also faces arson charges in Chester and Delaware counties after fires there.
  • Greater York FF photo Facebook

This time someone was hurt, a firefighter. And someone else had smoke inhilation.

I found the report from NBC affiliate WGAL in Lancaster particularly interesting and the article has a long video:

https://www.wgal.com/article/woman-charged-with-arson-following-fire-in-spring-garden-township/69938937

Police say Kathryn Frankel is accused of starting a fire using a heat gun in a home on Ogontz Street. They also say she has a previous arson arrest out of Chester County from 2024, also with a heat gun.

Details of the arson

Police said Frankel was living in the basement of the home on Ogontz Street when the fire started just after midnight on Jan. 1.

The fire department was dispatched for a reported basement fire, and upon arrival, they saw people trapped inside. Several residents had to be rescued, with some jumping from the second floor, and one person was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

A firefighter was also hurt.

According to charging documents, witnesses told officers Frankel was acting suspiciously before the fire and tried to stop others from going into the basement.

Police say they found a pile of burning clothes and blankets on the floor, as well as seven burned aerosol cans and a can of lighter fluid.

Frankel admitted to being in the basement and using a heat gun in the area shortly before the fire started, according to the charging documents. Kathryn Frankel is charged with arson and recklessly endangering another person.

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/06/woman-charged-with-setting-fire-to-york-county-home-on-new-years-day-kathryn-frankel/88046581007

Look I am sorry she is so mentally ill. But she is not safe out on the street. Someone is going to die. Once again, she could have died, and this time others got hurt.

She needs to NOT be out on the street. This is not the first fire. She is not safe, she may never be safe with this hobby of hers, correct?

Below are the dockets. Imagine if the wheels of justice had moved a little faster? Maybe those people in York wouldn’t have been displaced. I hate to say lock anyone up, but she is a danger to herself and others. She went from high style on the Main Line to a basement apartment in York County, PA.

Here is the York docket:

Frankel York CountyDownload

Here is the Chester County Docket:

Frankel Chester County DocketDownload

Here is the Delaware County Docket:

Frankel Delaware County DocketDownload

district attorney charges in 400 leopard road.

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so…. the story of 400 leopard road in berwyn has taken a twist

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Neighbor photo

Yesterday I wrote about the lightening striking twice at 400 Leopard Road in Berwyn. We had watched the massive local media cover this home, a very historic home to Easttown and Berwyn beginning on May 1, 2024. Yesterday morning I received a call from a friend who lives in that area in tears about 400 Leopard Road in Berwyn again.

Guess what? It went up in flames AGAIN. July 23, 2024. Maybe once you would think was an accident, and honestly I never did, but twice? My opinion is that is not a coincidence is it?

Well….it’s now July 24, 2024 and guess what? The wife (or eventually to be ex-wife) of the couple who own the house is facing well…arson charges. It’s a twist. It’s a plot twist, but is it really unexpected?

Of course this is odd, because these were the original charges filed this morning and then mid-afternoon there was this:

Here is the docket as of 4PM, showing a bail bondsman and is she in or out of jail at this point?

commonwealth vs frankel 2 4 PMDownload

So, yes, again, this is the wife. And the chatter has bene insane on social media. I am not repeating it, because who knows what is true? I think a lot of it is, but I have to ask something now about the FIRST fire on May 1: is it true that had be marked as a fire of undetermined origin? If so, does that change now? I am asking because since May 1st nothing much has been heard. Yesterday around 1 or so, the Chester County District Attorney posted a very brief statement: “The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is aware of the fire that has occurred in Easttown Township and are working with the Fire Marshal to determine how it started.”

This brings us to today. I don’t get the whole firebug thing. It’s a compulsion I suppose like shoplifting or something? But is this woman a firebug or desperately unhappy and perhaps mentally ill?

A perusal on the Internet shows she is a doctor:

Now I went to the civil dockets after the first file because I was told this was a divorce house. Prior to the first fire there was a realtor sign on the lawn:

May 1st or May 2nd photo found on Facebook somewhere.

Someone messaged me today just a little while ago:

Sugartown Road is still blocked from traffic between Lenape and Leopard Road. AND… there are people all about the house and some sort of “command station” under a blue tent there as well.

Here are a few photos from today, I will post more if I get them. One is from a local who lives near by and others are from fire companies like Radnor.

Now I could post the divorce and child custody dockets, but I am not. I have to ask though if the dates on the dockets of court related events are related to the dates of fires? One was May 1st, then the fire later that day? Then other momentous events recently? Do people think that is all coincidence? In my opinion it is NOT, which is why I question WHY the May 1st fire had undetermined origins?

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/te/crews-battle-house-fire-easttown-tuesday

Someone who once called that house home said today in a comment:

Breeze Hill was built tough to have withstood what she did to it as much as it did. Not that I have any hopes for it now… How destroyed this woman’s soul must be to have done such a thing as this.

So 6 ABC and reporter Leland Pinder and 6 ABC updated their story from yesterday, so allow me to share :

Chester County woman charged with arson after home catches fire twice in recent months
By 6abc Digital Staff / Leland Pinder
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 7:32PM

There you have it. That is a lot of the chatter I heard. Of course I want to know why a house with no electricity and wasn’t habitable had the pool opened? Will Kathryn Calmus Frankel be retroactively charged with first fire? And if she is out on bail, will she go back there again? And the ATF is now part of the investigation? Will we ever hear from the Fire Marshall? Will a lot of the neighbors stop being frosty to media, I wonder?

Sign me disgusted. This woman Kathryn Calmus Frankel put neighbors and first responders at risk. And she is a doctor to boot so what does the Hippocratic oath actually mean to her? In my opinion, perhaps a study in hypocrisy? A lot of our first responders include junior firefighters and among those ranks is my friend’s daughter whom I have known since she was in elementary school. And she destroyed a local historic asset too. That is despicable.

Now what we all will want to know is can this house be saved?

historic house goes up in flames in berwyn
after the fire
400 leopard road in berwyn (easttown) went up in flames AGAIN so does lightening strike twice?