New York—A supermarket employee was charged with arson after allegedly starting a fire on a paper goods shelf inside the Staten Island ShopRite. Surveillance footage revealed that as the fire quickly spread across the shelves and aisle, a quick-thinking customer used a fire extinguisher to partially suppress the flames before FDNY crews arrived to fully extinguish the blaze. Read the entire article here.
Jordan Unger, Fox8, retrieved from https://fox8.com/news/video-worker-charged-with-starting-fire-at-new-york-supermarket-full-of-shoppers/ on Dec. 19, 2025.