BRISTOL
TWP.,
Pa.
—
Dominic
Morabito,
the
man
killed
when
a
Levittown
home
went
up
in
flames
on
Monday,
gave
some
neighbors
the
impression
he
was
interested
in
domestic
life
with
girlfriend
Sherry
Calcagni
and
her
three
children.
He
bought
the
apparently
torched
home
on
Red
Maple
Lane,
where
Calcagni
had
grown
up,
and
he
often
played
outside
with
the
kids
and
proudly
posted
pictures
of
the
comely
girlfriend
and
the
children
on
his
Facebook
page.
In
Levittown’s
Red
Cedar
section
Tuesday
morning,
puzzled
neighbors
were
waiting
for
the
police
report
on
how
the
apparent
arson
started.
Bucks
County
Coroner
Dr.
Joseph
Campbell
on
Tuesday
confirmed
that
Morabito,
31,
was
the
victim
who
was
found
burned
to
death
in
the
gutted
home.
The
coroner
said
an
autopsy
will
be
performed
Wednesday
morning.
A
source
at
the
scene
Monday
said
the
victim
rushed
into
the
house
and
started
spreading
gasoline
all
around
before
lighting
a
match
at
about
1:30
p.m.
— a
story
detectives
went
over
with
Calcagni
after
the
blaze.
Investigators
said
the
homeowner’s
girlfriend
was
“cooperative”
and
“voluntarily
gave
a
statement
at
police
headquarters.”
One
neighbor
of
Calcagni
said
Morabito
had
threatened
to
torch
the
place
and
that
he
told
her
to
get
out
of
the
house
in
the
seconds
before
the
place
went
up
in
flames.
Her
three
children,
all
under
age
10,
were
not
in
the
house
at
the
time,
officials
confirmed.
Bucks
County
arson
investigator
Marc
Furber,
who
works
for
District
Attorney
Dave
Heckler,
on
Tuesday
gave
a
narration
of
the
incident
without
mentioning
names.
Furber
said
the
“homeowner”
and
his
“girlfriend”
got
into
an
argument
inside
the
Levittown
home
and
that
the
homeowner
“kicked
her
out
of
the
home,
and
he
told
her
to
leave.”
Evicted
by
her
man,
the
girlfriend
walked
out
of
the
house
and
made
a
quick
phone
call
seeking
a
place
to
stay,
Furber
said.
The
girlfriend
then
went
back
inside
the
house
to
retrieve
her
purse
and
that’s
when
she
“saw
what
appeared
to
be
the
homeowner
pouring
some
type
of
fluid
on
the
floor,”
Furber
said.
“She
exited
through
the
front
door.
Very
shortly
after
that,
the
house
was
engulfed
in
flames.”
Neighbor
Patricia
McGurl
said
the
previous
owner
of
the
house
at
63
Red
Maple
Lane,
Patrick
McCoy,
“sold
the
house
to
his
daughter
and
her
boyfriend,”
Morabito.
Township
Fire
Marshal
Kevin
Dippolito
on
Tuesday
said
the
“suspicious”
blaze
not
only
destroyed
Morabito’s
home,
but
also
unleashed
flames
so
intense
that
“radiant
heat”
damaged
the
nextdoor
property
at
61
Red
Maple
Lane,
displacing
the
four
people
who
lived
in
that
property.
Dippolito
said
the
Bucks
County
chapter
of
the
American
Red
Cross
is
providing
that
displayed
family
with
temporary
shelter.
Alexis
Sierra,
18,
a
senior
at
Truman
High
School
who
lives
nearby,
said,
“I
was
sitting
on a
couch
when
I
saw
smoke,
and
came
outside
— a
woman
was
standing
on
the
curb
in
front
of
the
burning
house
crying.
She
said
she
escaped
the
fire.
She
was
talking
to a
lady
in a
red
car.
Neighbors
said
her
boyfriend
did
it.”
Neighbors
said
the
pair
had
a
history
of
fighting
and
initially
speculated
incorrectly
that
another
man
might
have
died
in
the
flames,
which
melted
the
siding
and
caused
other
damage
after
jumping
to
the
house
next
door.
The
owner
of
that
nextdoor
melted
house
said
he
heard
the
pair
fighting
on
Sunday
and
that
he
came
home
Monday
afternoon
to
find
the
house
“completely
up
in
flames,
and
she
(Calcagni)
was
outside
on
the
street
on
her
cell
phone,
probably
calling
911.”
One
media
outlet
cited
neighbor
Joey
Delaney
as
saying,
“She
was
saying
how
he
was
sitting
in
the
living
room
and
he
was
pouring
gasoline
all
over
the
living
room.
He
set
it
on
fire
and
he
was
just
sitting
in
the
chair
when
she
came
in.
She
said,
‘What
are
you
doing?!
What
are
you
doing?!’
and
ran
out
of
the
house.”
Township
and
Bucks
County
detectives
were
on
the
scene
well
into
Monday
night.
Just
as
the
fire
was
declared
under
control,
one
of
the
many
volunteer
firemen
who
battled
the
flames
was
felled
by
smoke
inhalation
and
was
rushed
to a
hospital
for
treatment.
Township
police
and
county
detectives
are
expected
to
release
more
information
on
Wednesday
following
Morabito’s
7
a.m.
autopsy.
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