The homeowner who owns the home Amanda Bynes set the fire in front of is speaking out about the incident while Bynes is being places under a 5150 psychiatric hold in a nearby hospital.
Bonnie Braaten said she had no idea what was going on outside of her home in the Thousand Oaks neighborhood of California when Bynes was setting a fire in her driveway. She said she was watching TV in a room on the other side of the house.
."I have no idea what she was doing," Braaten told Us Weekly. "I don't even think she has an idea what she was doing."
"She lit two different places. It had been reported as arson,” she added. By the time she walked outside, after a police officer knocked on her door to let her know, her neighbor Bruno Corsi had already put out the fire.
Corsi described what he saw when he was working in his garage, saying he “saw a bunch of teenage kids who were trying to stop the fire” and "one lady with long blonde hair...sitting on the sidewalk," who is now revealed as Bynes.
“There was a gas can, a two- or three-gallon container. It was melting. If it were metal, it would have exploded, but it was plastic. [There were] four- or five-feet flames,” he said.
MTV News notes Bynes, 27, was placed on an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric hold to undergo a mental evaluation.
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