Jan. 17--SUMTER COUNTY, SC-- The bad news is a Midlands teenager who is a member of an area Explorers program started a fire and has been arrested.
The really bad news, if he was trying to put out the fire he didn't do a good job.
Thomas Carson Euten, 17, was charged with second-degree arson, according to the Sumter County Sheriff's Office. The member of the Sumter Fire Department's Explorers program is accused of causing a fire that severely damaged a mobile home Monday.
Euten was striking matches and throwing them on the ground, when a couch in the yard beside the mobile home caught fire and quickly spread to the residence, according to the incident report.
Damage to the mobile home was estimated at $40,000, the sheriff's office said.
Euten was taken to the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.
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