MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTV) – A woman has been arrested after she allegedly started a 2,000-acre fire in South Carolina.
The South Carolina Forestry Commission said 40-year-old Alexandra Bialousow started the fire in the Covington Lake neighborhood in the Myrtle Beach area.
Officials said Bialousow initially built the fire on March 1 in a backyard fire pit before it got out of control and reached the woods. From there, the flames burned more than 2,000 acres. An arrest warrant said that when she started the fire, she did not have “an appropriate water source readily available,” nor did she “have any garden tools on hand to control the fire.”…