MONTICELLO – A former Fallsburg fire chief was sentenced in Sullivan County Court on Tuesday to two to six years in state on an arson charge for encouraging his uncle to burn down a bungalow at Skopps Bungalow Colony in August 2008.

James Smith, 34, was also sentenced on a conspiracy charge.

Edward Smith, 44, who torched the building, was sentence to 1 1/3 to four years in prison.

The younger Smith had told his uncle that he wanted to burn down the vacant building so that the fire department could have practice extinguishing a fire.

No one was injured in that fire.