{"id":121010,"date":"2025-08-05T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/121010\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:49:17","slug":"man-charged-with-arson-after-fire-at-houston-habitat-for-humanity-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/121010\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with arson after fire at Houston Habitat for Humanity offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crime Handcuffs (KPRC2\/Click2Houston.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Crime\/\">arrest<\/a> has been made in connection with a fire that damaged the offices of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Habitat_For_Humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Habitat_For_Humanity\/\">Houston Habitat for Humanity<\/a> on August 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Court records allege Francisco Javier Gonzalez<a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Crime\/\"> intentionally set a fire <\/a>by igniting combustible materials and flammable liquids, targeting the building at 3750 N. McCarty Street. The property houses the offices of Houston Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Habitat_For_Humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Habitat_For_Humanity\/\">Houston Habitat for Humanity<\/a> provided the following statement from CEO Allison Hay regarding the incident:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe are deeply grateful to the first responders whose swift and professional actions helped contain the fire that occurred outside our offices on Saturday evening. While there is some exterior damage, our team is already working to assess and repair it. We appreciate the community\u2019s concern and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Authors<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 jbJvfh cLUOeE author-container\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 grUvMp iQviKm author\">Holly Galvan Posey headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/2J32PDWT6X5BWU2SVME0EEE7B9\/\" title=\"View Holly Galvan Posey&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holly Galvan Posey<\/a>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Holly joined the KPRC 2 digital team in March 2024, leveraging her eight years of expertise in blogging and digital content to share her passion for Houston. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring the city&#8217;s vibrant scenes, all while balancing her roles as a wife and mother to two toddlers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 grUvMp iQviKm author\">Corley Peel headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/6QGHF6GTPRHGJKAN365F26QGIM\/\" title=\"View Corley Peel&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corley Peel<\/a>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Corley Peel is a Texas native and Texas Tech graduate who covered big stories in Joplin, Missouri, Tulsa, Oklahoma and Jacksonville, Florida before returning to the Lone Star State. When not reporting, Corley enjoys hot yoga, Tech Football, and finding the best tacos in town.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime Handcuffs (KPRC2\/Click2Houston.com) An arrest has been made in connection with a fire that damaged the offices of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[12424,8339,4219,75189,4345,75188,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-121010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-arson","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-habitat-for-humanity","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-habitat-for-humanity","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114976480557915021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}