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Amanda Bynes' dog was reportedly injured after the actress set a fire in the driveway of a home in Thousand Oaks, California on Monday night.

Prior to being placed under a 5150 psychiatric hold, the 27-year-old actress ran to a nearby liquor store and took her Pomeranian into an employees only area. TMZ obtained the surveillance footage of the incident, and the store owner told the website he smelled gasoline and allegedly saw Bynes rinsing off her dog in a sink.

An eyewitness at the scene told TMZ that Bynes had burned her dog. "I saw this girl laying down right here with her left pant leg on fire. I quickly pulled over and there was this gas can right here and it's trailing fire," the man said. "Pull over, went to go help her and the flames, by then, extinguished out. She went over there to get her dog -- she had a small like Chihuahua ... She was really frantic like she wanted to get out of there. She was like, 'My dog has been burnt.'"

Bynes was reportedly trying to gain access to a retirement community in Thousand Oaks, and when management turned her away, she made her way back onto the premises, at which point cops were called. The fire department then responded to a home in the community around 9pm after a blaze was set in the driveway.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office said in a statement:
    "Amanda Bynes was involved in a disturbance in a residential neighborhood last night in Thousand Oaks in the 200-block of Avenida De Los Arboles. Deputies investigated the incident and determined that she met the criteria of 5150 W&I (California Welfare & Institutions Code). She was detained and taken for a mental health evaluation. Ventura County Fire Dept. also responded to this incident in reference to a report of a gas can on fire in a driveway."