Police: Woman used perfume to ignite boyfriend's clothes, started Camden apartment fire

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Police believe a New Jersey apartment fire that displaced nearly two dozen people started when a woman tried to use perfume to ignite her boyfriend's clothes.

Firefighters from the Camden Fire Department were called to the Myrtle Place Apartment around 5 a.m. on Mother's Day for a three alarm fire.

The two-story, eight-unit apartment building partially collapsed leaving 22 people displaced, according to fire investigators. No one was injured. Days after the devastating fire, county prosecutors charged 20-year-old Nakyah Barnes-Nelson with several crimes including second-degree arson.

 

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