When "kill it with fire" goes wrong. Woman burns aptmt complex due to bedbugs

quote:

---

Sherry Young says she spent close to a year living in fear of bedbugs.

So on Monday, sleep deprived and desperate, she turned on her apartment's stove and oven. She left for a day.

---

quote:

---

Then she returned, sprayed herself with rubbing alcohol and started pouring alcohol across the floor.

Flames tore through the 48-unit apartment complex, growing so powerful that the building’s roof caved in. Nine fire engines and about 60 personnel fought the blaze.

---

quote:

---

By the time it was over late Tuesday afternoon, the building was considered a total loss. Five people, including Young, were taken to the hospital, in what the Detroit Fire Department is calling an accidental fire. Three of the injured were firefighters. One received neck burns from a collapsing piece of the ceiling, and two others were treated for possible smoke inhalation.

---