FARMINGTON – A Eustis woman told investigators she had been drinking beer Tuesday and was angry about life before she started a fire and watched it burn a mobile home she was renting, a state fire investigator’s investigation report states.

Donna A. Reid, 44, of Eustis was arrested Wednesday on a charge of arson after she told State Fire Marshal Sgt. Joel Davis and Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Chase that she started the fire at the mobile home on Route 27 owned by Kandi Henderson of Wyman Township, according Davis’ affidavit and investigation report filed with the court.

Reid, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with flames on the arms and camouflage pants, made an initial appearance on the charge before Judge Valerie Stanfill on Thursday at a Farmington court.

Stanfill asked Reid if she would be able to make the $1,000 cash bail before she approved Assistant District Attorney James Andrews’ request of that amount and conditions of no possession or use of alcohol and she submit to random search and testing.

“I can try,” Reid said.

Andrews said he would be willing to discuss bail again after Reid gets a lawyer.

Reid had initially been held on $10,000 cash bail after her arrest.

Stanfill said the case would go before a grand jury. She set July 27 for a status conference on the case.

According to Davis’ report, Reid told Davis that “she had been drinking beer (Tuesday) and was angry about life and went to her trailer and was wrecking the place, when she decided to pile some books along a wall in the kitchen and lit them on fire.”

“She said she watched the fire grow up the wall and exited the building and sat at a picnic table outside watching the smoke coming from the building,” Davis wrote. “She stated after watching for a while she walked to her parents’ house where Deputy (Christopher) Chase found her. Donna also signed a voluntary consent for investigators to examine the remains of the home to verify what started the fire.”

Senior state fire investigator Scott Richardson conducted a fire-scene examination and concluded the fire was a result of an intentional human element and the fire was consistent with the statements made by Reid, Davis wrote.

Chase brought Reid to Franklin Memorial Hospital to have a voluntary medical evaluation after she had made statements about harming herself, the report states.

She was cleared from the hospital Wednesday morning and then arrested by Davis and Richardson at the Franklin County jail.