Police in Redding, California has arrested a woman who threatened to set her apartment on fire and kill herself and others on Friday night.
Responding officers and firefighters arrived at the apartment complex in the 1800 block of Hartnell Avenue at about 6 p.m. They found the 43-year-old Rebecca Dortha Cotreau in the apartment with the gas on and threatening to set the fire at the apartment. Authorities had to turn off the gas flow and evacuate the building's residents. The woman's father and her friends intervened to convince her to come out but she instead started breaking windows and igniting the fire using a lighter.
Police then forced their way and sent a K9 dozer to restrain the woman and arrest her.
Cotreau was booked into the Shasta County Jail on arson and resisting arrest.