A 22-year-old Thompson woman is in custody, charged with Arson with Disregard for Human Life  after setting a number of fires in the City on Wednesday night.

After making threats about starting a fire while at the Thompson General Hospital, the woman left the hospital and police were called.

Not long after,  police were called to a local gas station where a woman had walked up to a gas pump and put a cigarette in the nozzle, starting a fire.   She repeated this at the other pumps but the fires were extinguished by an employee.

The pumps had been shut off earlier, which prevented the fires from growing.

The woman left and was found later sitting on top of an excavator at a construction site where she had started another fire.

Officers got her down and in custody without incident.

The investigation continues.