Firefighters on Wednesday morning responded to a North Side house where two teens were killed and eight people were injured in an Easter morning shooting last year.
Around 10 a.m., smoke was coming from the roof of the home at Suismon Street and Madison Avenue in East Allegheny.
By 11:30 a.m., the fire was extinguished, and an arson unit was investigating the scene. The unit later determined the fire was accidental, according to Maria Montano, spokeswoman for Mayor Ed Gainey.
Many of the home’s windows had been smashed out and the walls appeared burned to the beams inside.
A resident of the home, which sits on a road facing Route 279, said he left a cigarette burning and believed that was the cause of the fire.