Maryland woman accused of setting home on fire and watching it burn from a lawn chair Another resident ‘almost burned to death,’ family member says Witnesses said Gail Metwally, 47, of Elkton in Cecil County allegedly set “multiple” fires in a home late last month and then sat on a chair on the front lawn and “watched the fire engulf the home”, the Office of the State Fire Marshal said. As the house was enveloped in flames local residents heard a woman in the basement shouting for help and managed to help her from the blaze through the house’s window, officials said. Pat Bernal, the sister of 52-year-old Blenda Holbrook who was trapped in the basement, told WMAR that her sibling “almost burned to death in that house.” This is wild I can't understand why someone would do something like this.