Police are searching for a woman who made a can of hairspray into a makeshift blowtorch and used it to damage items in a Philadelphia store after the owner refused to give her beer for free.

The incident happened at 10.30 a.m. in the Wyncote Beer Deli, West 65th Avenue, Philadelphia on November 20 when the unidentified woman wanted beer, but couldn't buy it because she had no money.

Store Owner Yang Lin, told NBC10, that the woman became angry and threw glass toward him when he wouldn't give her the beer free of charge.

'I said, 'You need to get out of here.' You know? She was more angry. She seen me go out so she wanted to fight me,' Lin said.

He said he had seen the woman in the store before but that she wasn't a regular.

'If this spray into my face, I think my eyes is gone. So she's crazy.' Lin added. He said he had to run from the counter to avoid being burned.

Lin has been in the job for 10 years and said he'd never experienced anything like it and hopes other stores in the neighborhood won't be targeted.

The surveillance video shows the woman taking a can of hairspray from a pocketbook and bashing in the serving window before making it into a makeshift blowtorch after igniting the aerosol with a lighter.

She set the hairspray alight and proceeded to torch items in the store after the owner refused to give her the beer for free

The store owner said she flew into a rage. Police are hunting for the yet to be identified woman

The woman came into the Wyncote Beer Deli, West 65th Avenue, Philadelphia on November 20 at 10:30 a.m.

She goes on to torch what looks like bottles of alcohol on the front counter in the store.

No one was injured during the incident but police say they are taking it very seriously. Arson investigators are now looking to question the woman.

'Thankfully the fire didn't spread,' Philadelphia Police Captain Sekou Kinebrew said. 'The building didn't burn down but it could have had catastrophic results.'

The woman is described as in her mid-30s to early 40s. She is around 5-foot-5 inches tall with short red hair and a thin to medium build. She was wearing a black jacket, gray pants with a flower design and a white stripe down the outer leg, black boots and round earrings.