The

State Fire Marshal’s Office announced Friday that a 65-year-old

Standish woman has been charged with three counts of arson,

including the fires in Raymond, Limerick and Waterboro. Officials

say she is also a suspect in over a dozen other fires that took

place through the past two years in Cumberland and York

counties.

Fire

investigators arrested Carol Field of 3 Standish Glen late Friday

afternoon and she was later taken to the Cumberland County Jail in

Portland, according to a press release from the Maine Department of

Public Safety.

The

three fires she is charged with are the July 26 fire in Raymond

that badly damaged the Raymond Hill Baptist Church; a Sept. 16 fire

that damaged a vacant house on Central Ave. in Limerick, and a

September 2010 fire outside Plumber’s Hardware Store in

Waterboro.

Investigators say she also is a suspect in 15 other fires during

the past two years at vacant buildings and wooded areas in the two

counties. A team of fire marshal investigators, ATF agents, Maine

Forest Rangers and deputies from Cumberland and York counties

combined efforts this summer to investigate the fires. Field

became a suspect in early September after a witness saw a car

leaving one of the fire scenes and gave investigators a partial

license plate number.

Field

is likely to make her first court appearance in Cumberland County

Superior Court early next week. She is being held on $100,000

bail.

Fire crews from Raymond and five other towns battle a fire at
Raymond Hill Baptist Church on Raymond Hill Road in July. A
Standish woman has been charged with arson in connection with the
fire.
Carol Field