Cigarette burns mattress in Rochester home

Some Rochester residents should consider themselves very lucky after a dropped cigarette started a mattress fire early Tuesday morning.
The Rochester Fire Department says it received a 911 call around 5:20 a.m. and when firefighters arrived at the home on 10 1/2 Street Southeast, they found a smoldering mattress.
The owner tried to put the flames out with a fire extinguisher, but the cotton and other textiles used in the padding made it hard to put out.
No one was hurt, but there were no working smoke detectors in the home.
"This was a very dangerous situation," says Battalion Chief Steven Belau of the Rochester Fire Department. "If it had happened earlier in the night, the outcome almost certainly would have been tragically different. The occupants of this house were extremely lucky that someone was awake and smelled the smoke from the fire. Cigarettes in bed and no operating smoke detectors where people sleep are a deadly combination."
Damage estimates are around $350.