Damage to homes in the 200 block of Hills Place after a 4-alarm fire on Friday night , August 14, 2015. The homes were soon demolished. photo by Michael Walker, City of Trenton
Michael Mancuso | For NJ.com
By Kevin Shea | For NJ.com
on August 25, 2015 at 7:49 PM
TRENTON, NJ
The 21-year-old woman badly burned earlier this month in a massive fire on Hills Place has died of her injuries, officials said.
Nileasia Jones was flown to Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia shortly after the Aug. 14 fire erupted on Hills Place.
A city official identified Jones Tuesday, saying fire officials were informed she had succumbed to her injuries. Further details regarding her death were not available Tuesday.
Hills Place Fire in Trenton
One person was critically injured and 13 people were left homeless after a blaze ripped through five homes in Trenton on Friday night. (Video courtesy of Michael A. Walker)
The fire, believed to have been caused gasoline cans stored in one of the homes, eventually destroyed five homes on the narrow street in South Trenton.
Firefighters arrived at the blaze at 10 p.m. to find two of the home engulfed in fire and a third was quickly burning.
Police officers were first on scene and found a severely burned woman standing outside. A police spokesman said the woman suffered burns to about 80 percent of her body.
The woman was dragged from the house by a male occupant, who sustained non life threatening burns to his hands, police have said.
By the time firefighters had the fire under control about three hours later, the blaze had jumped an open space and spread to two other homes, the fire department said.
The homes were torn down the next day. The fire left over a dozen people homeless.
The fire department, Trenton police detectives and the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office are investigating the fire.