Y'know what? If you smoke, just stay away from balconies and porches

Balcony fire. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department is blaming "careless disposal of smoking material" on a balcony for an early morning fire that caused roughly $100,000 in smoke damage to apartments at 44 Broadlawn Park in West Roxbury.

The department says quick work by firefighters responding to the 4:18 a.m. kept the fire, which started in an enclosed balcony outside the second floor, from spreading inside. According to the department, a still lit cigarette started it all:

Cardboard boxes on the balcony caught fire which then extended to the utility closet with the heating system in it.

March 13: Two-alarm fire on Mission Hill caused by cigarette.