Authorities Investigating After Brick Woman Taken To Burn Center

Authorities are still investigating how a Brick Township woman suffered significant burns Sunday as a result of an argument between her and a man she knows.

The woman, who has not been identified, was flown to the Burn Center at St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, for treatment, according to Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

But how she got burned is still not clear, he said.

The incident happened Sunday. Della Fave said Brick Township Police were called to a home on Montana Drive in the Lake Riviera section at 12:47 p.m. for a report of a burn victim. When they arrived, they found a woman had suffered severe burns.

At the scene, they interviewed Josel Calo, who is known to the woman, Della Fave said. Calo told police that he and the woman had an argument. During the course of the argument, Calo told police, he poured gasoline on clothing lying on the floor that belonged to the woman.

It was somewhere around that time that the woman got burned, Della Fave said, but exactly how she got burned remains unclear, he said.

Brick Township police have charged Calo with criminal mischief for pouring gasoline on the clothing. He was released on $1,000, no 10 percent, with no contact with the victim set as a condition of bail, Della Fave said.

He did not have information on the woman’s condition.