"I open the door and when I open the door, flames were shooting up in the stairwell," Tammy said.
Eble, who's 5-months pregnant, quickly shut the door and told her 13-year-old daughter Courtney to call 911.
Unknown to them at the time, a gas can had been set on fire just inside their front door and another fire was set in the adjacent garage next to a propane tank.
Without a back door, they were essentially trapped and the only way out was to climb out unto a second floor balcony. But as they tried to make their escape, they say they saw their neighbor, 76-year-old Evelyn Williams-Ortiz, who was the one allegedly trying to burn their home down with them inside and trying to make sure they couldn't escape.
"And she was trying to light the deck on fire so my daughter had to climb back in through the bedroom window and she kept saying, 'Ms. Evelyn, why are you doing this'? And she says, 'Because I want you guys to die, I hate you and I want you to die,'" Tammy said.
Scared for their lives, Tammy kept telling the police dispatcher on the phone to hurry because she feared they were going to die.
"And she even said to the police when they were here, 'Don't help her, I'm trying to kill her, I want her dead,'" Tammy said.
Police finally were able to place a ladder on the second floor balcony for Eble and her daughter to climb down. Both had to be hospitalized for smoke inhalation and Courtney suffered burns to her forearm.
"I don't really remember, but I burnt it somehow, I was in the ambulance and it started hurting," Courtney said.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire with minimal damage.
For the Ebles, it would not have been the first time they've had an encounter with their neighbor, who, they say, suffers from dementia, but it is by far, the most frightening.
"I haven't slept yet, I've been crying and I don't know what to make of it. I don't know where it came from; why it started," Tammy said.
The suspect is behind bars on $150,000 cash bail on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated arson and terroristic threats.
She is expected to be arraigned Thursday morning where authorities will request that she be placed in a psychiatric facility.
