Sun Valley Woman Is Arrested on Suspicion of Arson : Fires: Witnesses reported seeing her vehicle leaving the area where a 25-acre blaze began Friday morning.

A Sun Valley woman was arrested Friday on suspicion of arson for allegedly setting a fire that consumed 25 acres of brush, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies said.

Tammy C. Webster, 22, was arrested in connection with a fire that began about 8:45 a.m. Friday on Hasley Canyon Road near Backer Road, Deputy Britta Tubbs said. No structures were involved in the fire.

There are no clues linking Webster to the disastrous brush fires that swept through Southern California recently, Tubbs said, but the investigation is continuing. “It’s just too soon to tell” whether she was involved in the other fires, Tubbs said.

Witnesses saw Webster’s vehicle leaving the scene of the fire and wrote down a description of her car and its license plate number, Tubbs said. Webster was picked up a few minutes later at The Old Road and California 126, about two miles from the fire.

The witnesses positively identified Webster as the person they saw driving away from the burning field, Tubbs said.

Webster was being held Friday at the Santa Clarita sheriff’s substation in lieu of $10,000 bail.

This year, despite the significant amount of brush in the area, the Santa Clarita Valley has escaped the massive fires that charred neighborhoods in Laguna, Altadena, Topanga Canyon and Malibu, Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Jim Jordan said.

The area has been lucky, he said.

“Why hasn’t the Santa Clarita Valley had many brush fires this year? It’s because the big ones are started by arsonists,” Jordan said. “We’ve had the Santa Ana winds and the fuel load for the past three years, but we haven’t had someone or something to start the fires.”

Arson experts said that it is unusual for women to be arrested for this type of crime.

“Statistically, more men are arsonists than women and more men are arrested,” Sheriff’s Arson Investigator Rich Edwards said.