{"id":356344,"date":"2026-06-11T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:23:09","slug":"woodland-woman-arrested-on-arson-counts-after-several-grass-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356344\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodland woman arrested on arson counts after several grass fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/woodland-sr-113-interstate-5-grass-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">series of fires<\/a> broke out in Woodland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland firefighters responded to at least four grass fires in quick succession that afternoon in the northern part of the city, near North Pioneer Avenue and East Beamer Street.<\/p>\n<p>At least one fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WoodlandFD\/posts\/pfbid0Sf1Lah9bixsuP1qkq8MFMQm7JbYbqhpRMvkd6idsx1BxMZ2xgyu35kvcjRzyFCCul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">spread to a business<\/a> and caused damage, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hl-woodland-grass-fir-kmaxfohn.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"hl-woodland-grass-fir-kmaxfohn.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woodland police said investigators reviewed surveillance video from the area as they looked into whether the fires had been intentionally set.<\/p>\n<p>Later Wednesday evening, officers responded to a report of smoke near Churchill Downs Avenue and Santa Anita Drive. Police said they spotted a person who matched the description of a woman seen walking away from fires earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>That person, identified by police as 41-year-old Woodland resident Amy Dorsey, allegedly ran from officers before eventually surrendering.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey was arrested and booked into the Yolo County Jail on several arson counts.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a series of fires broke out in Woodland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,7623,14771],"class_list":["post-356344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-woodland-news","tag-yolo-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}