In Your Panic to Eliminate Bedbugs, Do Not Set Fire to a Home 5.17K Maureen O'Connor 10/28/10 03:23PM Filed to: Advice Advice Bedbugs arson Fire Crime Gettypic tweet Fb A public housing cleaner found a mattress she feared had bedbugs. She dragged it into the hallway, lit it on fire, and ran away. Now she has been charged with arson. (N.B. "Call an exterminator" is the correct response.)