A South Carolina woman was arrested last week for allegedly erupting a massive 2,059 acre wildfire that caused evacuations in the Myrtle Beach area and threatened hundreds of homes.
40-year-old Alexandra Biarosau was arrested Thursday after reporting that she had seen Kindler intentionally start a fire in a backyard fire pit near a woodline inside the Carolina forest Convington Lakes Subdivision on March 1. According to the South Carolina Forestry Commission.
Officials accused the firefight of failing to take appropriate precautions to stop the burns of her fragments from escaping the hole, accusing them of not being able to spread the fire to “another land” and of lacking the proper water source or garden tools to control the flames.
The Inferno, known as the Convington Drive fire, erupted on Saturday afternoon and spread quickly. According to the video It is shared by firefighters and residents.
Authorities ordered evacuation in several areas of Grand Strand shortly after the fire broke out. The next day, the order was lifted in Carolina Forest, just 10 miles from Myrtle Beach.
The South Carolina National Guard also dispatched Black Hawk helicopters to fight the flames, and a state of emergency was declared.
As of Friday, Inferno had 55% of its job as local, state and local fire departments to wipe out the flames. According to Holly County Fire Rescue.
The home or structure has not been destroyed, and no injuries or deaths have been reported.
Bialousow was charged with negligently allowing fires to spread to illegal land and property in forest areas, grasslands and other places unless certain precautions were taken.
She was on a Thursday afternoon. It was booked at the Reubenlong Detention Center and posted $15,000 in bonds on Friday, prison records show.
