A family was left displaced on Thanksgiving after an early evening fire in Falls Township’s Levittown section.
Firefighters rushed to unit block of Echo Lane at 5:50 p.m. for a reported bedroom blaze. Heavy fire and smoke filled the bedroom and ended up extending down the hallway of the home, Fire Marshal Rich Dippolito said.
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Crews battled the blaze and were able to quickly put down the flames, Dippolito said.
The fire marshal concluded the flames were started by careless smoking in the back bedroom.
The resident’s son was home at the time and alerted authorities of the blaze.
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No injuries were reported.
Dippolito said a cat was killed in the fire, and the Red Paw Relief Team reported on Twitter that two cats remained missing at of 8:30 p.m.
On-scene & inside searching for 2 cats missing from a fire on the unit block of Echo Lane in Levittown #BucksCounty pic.twitter.com/u98rF3tO2X
— Red Paw Relief Team (@RedPawRelief) November 27, 2015
