Official: Apartment fire likely caused by smoking
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CENTER LINE A fire at the Lawrence Park senior apartments that sent one resident to the hospital and left three others needing treatment at the scene was probably caused by smoking in the bedroom of a seventh-floor unit, according to Division Fire Chief Charles Schubert of the Center Line Public Safety Department.
Schubert said firefighters from Center Line and the U.S. Army Detroit Arsenal were dispatched to the building on 10 Mile Road, west of Van Dyke Avenue, at 7:22 p.m. April 30 after a resident called 911 to report smoke in the hallway on the seventh floor. That was confirmed by the building’s alarm company, which reported a commercial fire alarm.