MIDVALE, UTAH – August 19, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) – A woman is in custody after police saidshe deliberately started several small fires in a stack of hay parked at a Trax station Wednesday morning.
According to witnesses, Amber Lee Barlow, 32, was at the Midvale Trax station around 4:30 a.m. walking down the side of a truck parked at the station that was loaded with hay. Witnesses said she was lighting the hay on fire about every five feet.
Officials at the Trax station, located at 95 West Center St., said the three trucks loaded with hay were parked there because the hay was being used to combat noise from construction being completed in the area.
Once the woman was confronted by witnesses she tried to flee but was apprehended by police. Officials say the damage is estimated at $2,500.
She is currently being held in the Salt Lake County Jail and charged with third degree felony arson.
