Police charge woman with arson after house fire | Crime

EUGENE, Ore. - Eugene police charged a woman Tuesday with starting a fire in a travel trailer that spread to an adjacent house in the Bethel neighborhood.

No one was injured.

The blaze was reported around 11:15 a.m. It started inside the trailer parked next to a home on Ruskin Street.

According to fire officials on scene, the trailer was fully engulfed when they arrived and had jumped to the garage and attic of the home next to it.

Eugene police arrested Amberlee Pyle, 32, on charges of first degree arson and first degree burglary after the details she provided about whose name has not yet been released, admitted to police that she started the fire inside the trailer.

Sgt. Eric Klinko said Pyle was a friend of a man living at the residence.

Pyle alerted the people inside the house to the fire. Austen Hampson said he was asleep in his house when Pyle came in yelling that there was a fire.

"We walk outside, next thing I know just flames past the trees, the whole house is on fire," Hampson said. "So we grabbed what we can, run outside the house."

Police questioned Pyle and, based on the details she could provide about the fire, suspected she might have been involved in starting the blaze.

"She's my roommate's friend, and she's just been causing problems the last couple weeks," Hampson said. "So naturally it was a living nightmare when you wake up and she set the house on fire, more than likely."