A woman allegedly set fire to a neighbor's mobile home Tuesday afternoon because she was angry with him for accusing her of stealing scrap metal, authorities said.

The owner of Fleming's Trailer Park in Concord Township spotted the fire on the porch and quickly doused it with a bucket of rain water.

“If he hadn't been there,” Chief Reid Campbell of the West Sunbury Volunteer Fire Department said of the owner, “the whole trailer would have caught on fire.”

State police arrested Naomi D. Best, 44, on charges of arson, reckless endangerment and reckless burning. She is being held in the Butler County Prison on $10,000 bail.

Best is accused of igniting a fire to the exterior siding of a wooden porch at Joseph Mitchell's mobile home about 2 p.m. at the trailer park near Mahood and Jackson roads.

No one was at the home, authorities said. Mitchell, 42, was at work and his three young children were at school.

The trailer court owner threw a bucket of water on the porch, which stopped the flames from spreading.

The fire was out by the time a dozen firefighters from four departments got there. Campbell estimated damage at $200.

But, he noted, it could have been more worse if not for the quick action of the trailer park owner, whose name was not immediately available.

Trooper David Jungling, a deputy fire marshal at the Butler barracks, spoke to Best during his investigation. The defendant lives at a trailer near Mitchell's.

Best, during an interview, “confessed that she lit the trailer on fire because she was mad at (Mitchell) for accusing her of stealing scrap metal from him,” according to court documents.