Woman wanted Games symbol

Sept. 30, 2014, midnight

AN Albury woman who lit a fire that went on to burn about 30 hectares of bush on Nail Can Hill has mental health issues, a court has found.

The womans car quickly became engulfed by flames after she set fire to grass near Nail Can Hill.

AN Albury woman who lit a fire that went on to burn about 30 hectares of bush on Nail Can Hill has mental health issues, a court has found.

When asked why she had lit the blaze, the 56-year-old woman told police: Want to make smoke for symbol of Olympic Games.

It was at 2.41pm on December 29 last year that the woman used a cigarette lighter to set fire to grass and leaves in Rosedale Drive, West Albury.

She parked her car about 150 metres from the end of a bitumen road, where the landscape is native bushland.

The fire spread quickly towards Nail Can Hill, and also engulfed the womans car.

She became frightened and ran from the area, waving down a woman passing by in a car.

My shoe is broken and I just set my car on fire, she told the witness.

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