A Rosepine man has been arrested in connection with a large woods fire that has resulted in the loss of two mobile homes, an undetermined amount of timber acreage and the mandatory evacuation of the area — and the Vernon Parish District Attorney’s Office said his bond is not nearly high enough.

The Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office said 59-year-old Paul Nash was illegally burning in the Providence area on Thursday afternoon, despite the statewide burn ban. Deputies said they found a trash pile burning in a yard on B. Johnson Road that was out of control and spreading into a heavily wooded area near several homes when they arrived.

Deputy Tyler Sandell was able to assist a woman and her animals out of one of the mobile homes before it became engulfed by the fire.

VPSO said witnesses identified Nash as the person responsible for starting the fire.

Nash was taken into custody at the scene and charged with one count of illegal burning in violation of a burn ban; one count of fire raising on lands of another by criminal negligence; and one count of negligent arson.

His bond has been set at $ 13,000 and he remains in the VPSO jail.

The Vernon Parish District Attorney’s Office has filed a motion for consideration of increasing that bond.