SPRINGFIELD -- A lit cigarette caused a fire on the six-floor of a high-rise apartment building in the Brightwood section of the city.
The fire, which was reported at 4:49 p.m., at 117 Sanderson St., caused about $5,000 in damage, said Dennis Leger, executive assistant to Fire Commissioner Bernard J. Calvi.
Firefighters extinguished the flames quickly. No one was injured in the fire, he said.