Arson investigation underway after fire at Salem Township home connected to pipe bomb explosion

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a house fire in Salem Township on the same property where an explosion took place last month.

It comes as James Sever, who investigators say planted a homemade device to try to kill his former landlord in Westmoreland County in July, is still at large.

Police told KDKA on Friday that they searched the area near the Salem Township home for Sever, but didn’t find him. They’re investigating the house fire as arson, but as of Friday night, they’re saying they don’t know who started it.

As Nicholas Nagy looked through the rubble of his home, he tried to remind himself of what he still has.

“Stuff can be replaced, but sometimes the sentiment along with it can’t be,” Nagy said. “Grateful that I have my family to fall back on, grateful that no one was hurt.”

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