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Kids with lighter burn GR house
Everyone got out safely
Updated: Friday, 16 Nov 2012, 2:39 PM EST
Published : Friday, 16 Nov 2012, 12:24 PM EST
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Young children playing with a lighter apparently set a Grand Rapids house on fire on the city's southwest side.
The man who lived at the house told 24 Hour News 8 his girlfriend and her three children all escaped the flames, though the woman suffered a minor hand injury. She was treated by paramedics.
He said he came downstairs and found the couch was engulfed in flames. He tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher, but it was too far along and started spreading quickly.
GRFD battalion chief Pat Felix told 24 Hour News 8 the children were playing with a lighter.
Everyone got out safely from the house on Butterworth SW, not far from the John Ball Park Zoo. The house suffered significant damage.
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