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Tamaqua woman charged with setting apartment fire

Tamaqua police filed arson and other charges against a 28-year-old woman rescued from an apartment building fire Wednesday.

Keyshawna Hausman of Tamaqua faces charges of arson: inhabited building; aggravated arson: bodily injury; arson: danger of death or bodily injury; risking catastrophe, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, police said.

She was rescued from a second-floor window in the nine-unit apartment building and later admitted to intentionally setting the fire, police said.

Hausman was treated at the scene and then transported to St. Luke’s Miners Campus for her injuries and smoke inhalation.

An EMT carried a 62-year-old woman who uses a walker out of the building, and another EMT was treated for smoke inhalation, police said.

A state police fire marshal determined the fire was intentionally set inside the second-floor apartment unit, where the fire started along a wall and remnants of a shower curtain were found, police said.