LIVERMORE FALLS – A man suspected in a July 3 arson turned himself in to a Dover-Foxcroft parole officer last week, fire Chief Ken Jones said Tuesday.
The man, Michael Stanchfield, 36, of Milo, admitted last week to starting a July 3 fire in Livermore Falls, says investigator Chris Stanford of the State Fire Marshal’s Office.
Stanchfield is being held without bail at the Somerset County Jail in Skowhegan on a probation violation.
Jones said the fire started around 9:30 p.m. on July 3, when most police and firefighters were at the annual fireworks show. Firefighters were called to the Pleasant Pine trailer park on Fayette Road, and when they arrived the fire was already fully involved, he said.
A trailer was destroyed in the fire. The owner, Julie Adams, and her two young daughters were in the process of moving out at the time of the fire, Jones said.
Jones said he called the state fire marshal after extinguishing the fire.
Stanford took the case, and a few days later ruled it an arson. “The fire was set in the back bedroom area using ordinary combustibles – paper, plastic and anything you’d find lying around the house,” he said.
Little more than a week later, on July 12, Stanchfield turned himself in to a probation officer in Dover-Foxcroft, Stanford said.
“He has been formally charged with arson,” he said.
Stanchfield has been scheduled for arraignment on Sept. 29 in the Auburn Superior Court, Stanford said.
“I’m just happy the investigation has proven there is somebody responsible” for the fire, Jones said.
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