Lutz Woman Charged With Setting Fire To Home With 8 Dogs Inside

LUTZ, FL -- Pasco County Sheriff's deputies arrested Brandi Currigan, 40, for arson and possession of narcotics after she allegedly set fire to her home in Lutz with her eight dogs inside (see related story).

Firefighters and deputies responded to a house fire at 23547 Turtle Lakes Road, to a structure fire at 7:50 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, to find the house fully engulfed in flames.

Corrigan, who previously lived in the house, was on scene and had been moving items out of the home since she and her husband (who is in Iraq working for a private security company) were getting separated.

During the investigation, it was determined Corrigan had destroyed the interior and exterior of the house by hand painting graffiti on the walls and dumping paint throughout the house. According to deputies, she set fire to the inside of the house in three locations and left her eight dogs inside.

Due to the intensity of the fire, firefighters called a second alarm and began attacking the flames from above. Nevertheless, they were able to rescue the dogs, but one was critically burned.

Corrigan was arrested on the scene and charged with arson. She was also found in possession of methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Image via Pasco Fire

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