Cigarette Ignites Three-Alarm Blaze

A three-alarm fire sparked by a man who fell asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand injured five people and forced the evacuation of a Bronx apartment building early Wednesday. The blaze swept through a five-story building on Honeywell Ave. in East Tremont just after 1:30 a.m. and escalated to three alarms within the hour as smoke filled the structure's hallways and flames shot out its windows...more>