A Copiague resident was arrested after a 17-acre grass and brush fire, Otsego County deputies said.
Destinee M. Tripoli, 21, was charged April 13 with negligently causing a forest fire and unlawfully possessing fireworks, deputies said in a news release Saturday.
Tripoli was accused of recklessly allowing illegal fireworks to be launched into a field, which caused a grass and brush fire on lands adjacent to county Route 21 in the town of Plainfield, deputies said.
The Unadilla Forks, West Winfield, Bridgewater, West Edmeston, Leonardsville and West Execter departments were at the fire scene.
Tripoli is to appear in Plainfield Town Court on May 6.
