A woman accused of starting a fire that destroyed or damaged 20 homes in her Paulding County neighborhood has been indicted on reduced charges.
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Adrienne Satterly originally faced 14 counts of first-degree arson, three counts of aggravated animal cruelty and one count of public drunkenness after the February blaze in the Greystone subdivision in Hiram.
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However, a grand jury indicted her Wednesday on one count of first-degree arson, 13 counts of second-degree criminal damage to property, three counts of aggravated animal cruelty and one count of public drunkenness, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Bond was set at $15,000 during a hearing on the reduced charges, the news station reported. She bonded out of the Paulding County jail Thursday.
According to the state insurance and safety fire commissioner’s office, Satterly had just lost her Rosemont Court house in a divorce.
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She set a pile of mattresses in the dining room on fire, left the house with her two cats and walked to a Walmart on Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway before calling 911 about 3:25 a.m. Feb. 18, office spokesman Glenn Allen told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In 911 audio The AJC obtained just days after the blaze, Satterly never mentioned a fire. She told a dispatcher she had a “kitty cat and a suitcase” and asked if someone could pick her up from Walmart.
“Where do you need them to go?” the dispatcher asked.
“To Greystone,” Satterly said. “By the hospital.”
She gave the dispatcher the address of her home, but said she had been ordered to leave the residence due to a case.
It’s not clear from the audio if authorities ever picked up Satterly and took her home.
By the time fire crews got to her neighborhood, the blaze had spread from Satterly’s home to 19 others. The fire destroyed four of them, significantly damaged two more and left 14 others with varying degrees of heat and smoke damage.
Everyone got out of their homes safely, but one man suffered a minor ankle injury, authorities said.
A cat and two dogs from two neighboring homes died.
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