Pitman woman facing false alarm charge for fire report
PITMAN – A Pitman woman is facing a false alarm charge for falsely reporting a fire to draw emergency responders to her rural Eldred Township home for an argument between her son and grandson.
The fire call came in around 3:30pm on August 11, drawing firefighters from Pitman, Hegins, Sacramento, Englewood, Pine Grove, and Klingerstown to a home at 54 County Line Road.
“The caller stated her house was on fire and hung up,” Schuylkill County Fire Dispatchers told the first responding units.
Dispatchers received a second call back, saying “there’s a lot of smoke in the house, the fire is out, but they don’t know what was on fire,” before the woman hung up again.
Pitman’s fire chief arrived to find a dispute, not a fire.
As a result, 72-year-old Connie Morrissey, of Pitman, is facing a false report charge, filed by State Police at Schuylkill Haven.
Troopers accuse her of reporting the fire “in order to have emergency responders rush to her residence for a verbal argument between her son and grandson.”
Pitman and Klingerstown firefighters remained on scene for a short time as the situation difused.
About Author
