Thanksgiving Day Fire Likely Caused by Stray Cigarette Butt
Eagan Fire Chief Mike Scott said fire investigators ruled out every other cause for the blaze, which damaged six apartments and left 20 people temporarily homeless.
An apartment fire on the Burnsville-Eagan border that injured one person and displaced as many as 20 residents on Thanksgiving was likely started by an smoldering cigarette butt. Investigators believe the blaze began on a second-story deck outside of the building, where an apartment resident smoking outside may have left an improperly discarded cigarette butt, Eagan Fire Department Chief Mike Scott said on Monday. From there, the fire likely spread to the building's vinyl siding before leap-frogging to other exterior decks, Scott said. A total of six apartments were damaged in the fire, which took firefighters roughly two hours to extinguish. So far this year, Eagan firefighters have responded to eight structure fires in the city, …
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Joshua
3:04 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I honestly don't understand why apartment communities allow smoking on the property at all. I mean, I understand that it's your home, but you are living so close to so many other people that it poses a danger to other families. My two cents. more ›