A Maine fire chief has been arrested and charged with arson in connection with a marsh fire that took more than 100 firefighters to extinguish.
According to local television station WCSH6, Old Orchard Beach Chief Ricky Plummer was arrested on Saturday morning for a fire that happened on April 15 and burned 42 acres at the Jones Creek Marsh.
The television station reported a dozen investigators from the state fire marshal's office and forest service seized computers from the fire station and in the chief's town-owned car as well as his cell phone during the investigation.
He's being held on $10,000 bail awaiting his first court appearance.
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