Cleveland residents experienced a jarring disruption yesterday as flames engulfed a local home, resulting in significant damage and the displacement of three adults. The Cleveland Fire Department reported to the scene of an occupied house fire at E.147/Bartlett in Battalion 5, where the fire was discovered wreaking havoc from the basement up through the third floor. Officials traced the ignition point to “careless smoking,” as noted in a social media post by the Cleveland Fire Department.
The conflagration, though swiftly attended by fire crews, inflicted an estimated loss of $100,000 upon the household. Fortunately, no physical injuries were reported among the house’s occupants or the responding personnel. In the aftermath of the blaze, the American Red Cross stepped in to help the three adults now without shelter, their day-to-day lives momentarily cast into disarray by an act as banal as a thoughtless moment with a cigarette…