Eight people were displaced in an Orange County apartment fire that started when a 10-year-old child was playing with a lighter in a bedroom, fire officials said.
Firefighters responded around 9:15 p.m. Sunday night to a fire at a two-story apartment complex at 6628 Knott Ave. in Buena Park, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.
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The fire was extinguished around 9:45 p.m. Officials said the family was alerted to the blaze by a smoke alarm.
"I went into my bedroom and my mattress and all my clothes were totally on fire," said Mattie Thompson, a tenant of the apartment that caught fire.
A 10-year-old child was taken to Kaiser Permanente in Anaheim for smoke inhalation. It’s unknown whether the hospitalized child is the same child who caused the fire.
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Six adults and two children were displaced in the fire. Red Cross is assisting the displaced, along with tenants from an apartment below that received water damage, officials said.
