A Slippery Rock firefighter rolls up a hose Friday after putting out hot spots that rekindled at the site of a suspicious fire in Cherry Township. The blaze leveled the house, which also was robbed, at 170 Coaltown Road.

CHERRY TWP — A Callery couple is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who robbed and set fire to their home Friday morning.

"This was my grandparents' house," Lorena Adams said.

"I bought it a few years ago in 2005, and my husband and I had almost finished renovating it," she said Friday afternoon.

Although the 1½-story brick home at 170 Coaltown Road was unoccupied, it was not abandoned. The Adamses had tools for their renovation project and some personal belongings in the house, which Lorena Adams said was a complete loss.

West Sunbury Fire Chief Reid Campbell said a damaged garage door at the house indicated forced entry, and a car abandoned nearby, apparently a getaway vehicle stuck in the snow, had several electrical motors in the trunk.

State police fire marshal Cpl. Jeff Crede is investigating the blaze, which was reported by a passing motorist about 2:40 a.m. Friday.

"It's an undetermined fire at this point, but with other contributing factors we've identified at the scene, it's believed to be an incendiary fire (arson)," Crede said Friday afternoon.

The engine of the white Pontiac stuck nearby was still running, with its lights on and its trunk open, when firefighters arrived at the fire early Friday morning. Police investigators are focusing on the fire and the car, which might have been stolen, as separate incidents, Crede said.

"If they were going to steal something, they could have just taken it and gone. They didn't have to burn down the house," Adams said.

She hopes someone who knows the perpetrators will do the right thing, reward or no.

"There's no loyalty among thieves," Adams said.

Anyone with information should call state police at 724-284-8100.