By Richard C. Dujardin
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- At least some of the residents of the City View Manor at 99 Goldsmith Ave. were temporarily evacuated from their rooms in high rise after 9 p.m. Wednesday as a result of a sofa fire in one of the apartments.
Police said a woman living in the apartment acknowledged that she accidentally started the fire with a lit cigarette, and notified the Fire Department after failing to douse the fire with an ice pack.
Firefighters put out the blaze quickly, and there were no injuries.