Careless Disposal of Cigarette Causes Blaze

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Careless Disposal of Cigarette Causes Blaze

By KBJR News 1

Story Published: May 10, 2009 at 6:36 PM CST

Story Updated: May 10, 2009 at 6:36 PM CST

The careless disposal of a cigarette in a trash can is responsible for a fire that nearly destroyed a Gary boarding house last night.

The Duluth Fire Department responded to the blaze just after 2 AM.

The flames were contained to a single room and the automatic sprinkler system had been activated.

Crews extinguished the fire, ventilated the building, and helped evacuate the water from the sprinkler system.

The building manager suffered minor injuries related to smoke inhalation after attempting to enter the room prior to the arrival of firefighters.

He was evaluated by Gold Cross and released on the scene.

Early structural damage is estimated at about $10,000.

Monday, May 11 at 3:44 AM anonymous wrote ...

What a shame. Most of the rooms there are small anyway and I thought that they were non-smoking ones.

Monday, May 11 at 7:09 PM sally wrote ...

Funny, because usually the night manager is asleep. The people are very lucky.

Monday, May 11 at 9:07 PM the public wrote ...

"careless"... check to see what it insured for. maybe they were hoping for a total loss.

Wednesday, May 13 at 11:02 AM sprinkler advocate wrote ...

They are lucky they had a fire sprinkler system to contain it to one room. Otherwise the word "nearly" would have to have been omitted from the opening sentence of this article.

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