Cigarette butt starts small porch fire at Burgeo Street home says homeowner
Homeowners of a residence in the west end of St. John's say a cigarette butt started a small fire Tuesday evening.
Crews were called to the Burgeo Street home shortly before 8 p.m. to reports of a fire.
According to a homeowner, someone threw a cigarette into a flower pot.
The butt wasn't out and lit a stroller on the porch on fire, as well as the siding.
Firefighters put the blaze out before it spread to the interior of the home.
No injuries were reported.