Christine Seelye faces felony arson-related charges after she poured accelerates on the garage floor of a home in the 1600 block of Trimble Road in Gamble Township on June 30, Cpl. Nathan Birth, a state police fire marshal, alleged in an affidavit. At the time, she was living in the house, but earlier in the day at the end of a protection from abuse order hearing, the 59-year-old woman had been ordered “to remove her belongings” from the property, Birth said in the court document.

When a state trooper asked her why she poured gasoline in the garage, Seelye, now living at 2945 Cochran Ave., DuBoistown, replied “I built that garage. I was going to burn it (down),” it was stated in the affidavit.

Troopers had been dispatched to the Gamble Township property to do a welfare check on Seelye, who, following the hearing, was heard saying she was “going to burn everything that she had built and herself,” the affidavit stated. She reportedly had locked herself in a bathroom, but she spoke with troopers at her kitchen table once they arrived at the home. “Seelye smelled heavily of what a trooper believed to be kerosene,” the affidavit stated.

Seelye was arraigned last week before District Judge Gary Whiteman on charges of attempted arson, dangerous burning, possession of explosive-incendiary material and risking a catastrophe. She was released on $50,000 bail.