Douglas County Man Arrested After Locking Self Inside Burning Building
Submitted by paula on Fri, 05/02/2014 - 5:06pm
An East Fork Fire Department crew responded to an outbuilding fire in the Indian Hills neighborhood of Douglas County early Friday morning. They arrived to see an unattached garage fully involved.
The occupant of the home, Blake Lister, told firefighters that he was a BLM firefighter. He was asked to stay away from firefighters so they could fight the blaze. Lister then ran into the burning building and locked himself in.
Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies entered the building and told Lister to leave. When he wouldn't, he was arrested and booked into the Douglas County Jail for interfering with extinguishing a fire and obstructing/resisting an officer.
Lister's bail was set at $1,280.
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