Durham prosecutors say the woman attempted to start a fire at the same apartment complex a week earlier.
The incident happened on Hoppy Hill Drive in Knightdale.
The cold weather made for icy roads and hundreds of early morning wrecks.
The firefighters, which he described as a "hand crew," had just wrapped up a 12-hour shift fighting the wildfire, he said.
Two firefighters in Wake County had to be rushed to the hospital after being injured battling a fire inside a home near Wake Forest.
According to the fire department, the man, a relative of the homeowner, was trying to trim a tree.