Bed bug chaser starts apartment fire

A fire started in an apartment as the tenant used a cigarette lighter to chase bed bugs, police told 24 Hour News 8. No one was injured and the blaze was contained to a bedroom, which sustained fire, smoke and water damage. The fire was in a second-floor residence at Fox Ridge Apartments, 1400 Alamo Hills Dr. in Kalamazoo. Members of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety were dispatched around 6:35 p.m. Thursday and evacuated the building. They then extinguished the flames in 15 minutes.