JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH, La. (KLFY) The State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested a Jennings woman who allegedly set the house she was renting on fire while her three children were inside.

31-year-old Mandy Rochelle was booked into the Jefferson Davis Parish jail Tuesday on one count of aggravated arson.

According to the LOSFM, firefighters responded to a call for a residential fire just after 9 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of South McFarlain Street.

At the time of the fire, official say, the home was occupied by Rochelle and her three children ages 12, 9 and 6.

After the fire was extinguished, an assessment of the scene determined that there were multiple areas of origin and that the fire was intentionally set, officials said.

Additional witness statements and Rochelle was placed under arrest in the case on the above charge.

SFM investigators learned Rochelle and her estranged husband had an argument just prior to the fire, but the husband had left the home before the fire began.