'Oh my God, she's burning my house down!'

An East Boston woman living with her ex-boyfriend was arraigned yesterday on charges she set his Coleridge Street apartment on fire, causing $300,000 in damage, displacing three people and sending four firefighters to the hospital.

Judge Roberto Ronquillo, Jr., set Tina Farulla's bail at $5,000, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which had requested bail of $50,000, and which provided this account:

Two neighborhood residents gave statements to the officers and said they'd been speaking with Farulla's ex-boyfriend, a resident of the building, just before the fire broke out. As they stood on the front steps, the witnesses said, they saw Farulla throwing bottles and other items out his window. Seconds later, they saw smoke and flames from the same window.

"Oh my God," the resident said, "shess burning my house down!"

A short time later, the witnesses saw Farulla leaving the building with several bags.

Farulla was arrested while standing across the street from the fire, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.