A toddler playing with a lighter set an apartment on fire Monday evening in Escanaba.
Escanaba Public Safety says the call came in at 5:30 to come to the Sand Hill Town House apartments, and when officers got there, they saw the living room engulfed in flames in an upstairs apartment. Crews were able to save nearby apartnents from damage, but the apartment where te fire started was heavily damaged.
They traced the cause to the fire to a couch where the toddler had the lighter. One firefighter suffered minor injuries.
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