California native Raquel Nunn moved to Haddon Heights only a few months ago, said her friend and coworker, Elizabeth Croker.

Nunn will be spending at least twice that amount of time in the hospital, as the young woman heals from the second- and third-degree burns that now cover nearly half her body, Croker said. Nunn has no health insurance.

Everything she owned was destroyed in the explosion that leveled the White Horse Pike apartment she rented, Croker said. "She doesn't even have a toothbrush; she doesn't even have anywhere to go home to," Croker said.

The severity of Nunn's injuries are such that "we're not sure if she can actually wear clothes [right now]," she said. So Croker, a Collingswood resident and coworker of Nunn at Ott's Greentop Inn in Berlin, is working to organize some relief.

"So far we're taking cash; we're taking anything," she said. "We'll take anything, and I'll store it in my basement until she comes out [of the hospital]."

As Nunn's family flies in from California, Croker said, they are being made to wait 48 hours before they are allowed to visit her. By Sunday evening, when she spoke with Patch, not enough time had yet elapsed for them to visit.

Nunn is being kept sedated until then, Croker said. In the meantime, Croker said, she's also been on the lookout for Nunn's all-black cat, Leo—"the love of her life."