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Florence woman charged with arson.


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 and burglary for allegedly setting fire to her neighbors' home.

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 the Lane County Sheriff's Office, 23-year-old Amanda Lee McDaniel told deputies that she set the fire because she thought one of the neighbors had stolen her keys.

McDaniel later found her keys in her pants pocket, Sgt. Clint Riley said.

She was charged with arson, burglary and criminal mischief in Lane County Circuit Court on Thursday. She remains in the Lane County Jail on $350,000 bail.

It was McDaniel who called 911 at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday to report the blaze at 87643 Highway 101, Riley said. She lives next door with her boyfriend.

According to a police report, McDaniel told a deputy that after discovering her keys missing, she went to the neighbors' trailer, removed a screen from a bedroom window and climbed inside. The neighbors were gone at the time.

She said she threw glass objects at a television and used a knife to stab a computer monitor, according to the report. She then retrieved lighter fluid Lighter fluid may refer to:
  • Butane, a highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gas used in cigarette lighters
  • Naphtha, a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used in wick type lighters
 and cooking oil from her own home and returned to the neighbors' place, the report said. She allegedly told the deputy that she tried to start a fire by spraying lighter fluid on a hot stove burner. When that didn't work she allegedly placed the cooking oil and a stuffed animal
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 on the stove, according to the report.

She then went home to call 911 and hid in a bush across the street while deputies and firefighters responded, Riley said.

McDaniel's boyfriend told the deputy that a friend had called him at work after seeing the firefighters at his house, Riley said.

He raced home and found McDaniel hiding in the bushes, barefoot bare·foot   also bare·foot·ed
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With nothing on the feet: walking barefoot in the grass; a barefoot boy.
 and incoherent, according to the report. McDaniel told him her keys were missing, Riley said. The boyfriend pointed to a set of keys hanging from her pants pocket, and "she began to cry," Riley said.

McDaniel was taken to Peace Harbor Hospital in Florence for a mental evaluation before she was lodged at the jail.

The fire was confined con·fine  
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1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit.
 to the kitchen, but the rest of the home sustained smoke damage, Riley said. A dollar estimate for the damage was not available Friday.
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Title Annotation:Crime; Amanda Lee McDaniel, 23, is accused of setting a fire inside her neighbors' trailer
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:Sep 8, 2007
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