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Cigarette Blamed For Dorchester Triple Decker Fire

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Feb 6, 2010 1:25 pm US/Eastern

Cigarette Blamed For Dorchester Triple Decker Fire

DORCHESTER (WBZ) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 2: The fire department says the fire started by the third floor front porch.
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Click to enlarge 2 of 2: The cause was a discarded cigarette.
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A lit cigarette thrown away improperly ended up burning part of a triple-decker home in Dorchester Saturday morning.

The Boston Fire Department tweeted that someone tossed the cigarette by the top floor porch of a home on Althea Street around 7:45 a.m.

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It caught fire and spread inside the home.

13 people – 6 of them children – were inside the building at the time. All escaped safely.

Damaged is estimated at $150,000.

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