UTICA - A 19-year-old Utica woman has the distinction of being the second person charged by the city's newly-resuscitated arson task force.

City and county leaders and strike force members made the announcement Thursday afternoon just minutes after an Oneida County Grand Jury formally charged the woman with arson.

Prosecutors say this began as some sort of domestic dispute and ended with Ambur Dawn Fortney allegedly starting a fire on the porch of 1122 Court Street in Utica.

That fire was one of a cluster of four Utica fires that broke out within an hour of each other around midnight fourth of July into the fifth. This fire on Court Street happened a few minutes after midnight, on the July 5.

City and county leaders said the arson task force is doing its job and getting results, and that there will be more announcements like this one to come.

"This is the second arrest the arson task force has made, and it's only been up and running for two weeks," said Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara. "And obviously we're still in the building stages of the task force and I'm very happy with their progress."

Ambur Fortney was arraigned Thursday in Oneida County Court, where she entered a not-guilty plea to that second-degree arson charge and is being held in the Oneida County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Officials say the arson strike force is growing, and McNamara says the State Police have added a few members.