Police believe the apartment fire in Winston-Salem that displaced 13 people on Saturday morning could be arson.
Officers were called to Salem Gardens Apartments at 23 Salem Gardens Drive, Apt. D in reference to a housebreaking call shortly after 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
Police said the building was on fire, the same place where a series of phone calls happened between a girlfriend who lived there and her boyfriend.
Kiwana lives next door. She said her smoke alarms didn't pick up the smoke that filled the air. What woke her up was a brave officer going door to door.
"If it wasn't for them or the officer that knocked on my door, me and my son would've been dead inside of there yesterday," Kiwana said.
They barely escaped with the clothes on their backs.