Birthday Cupcake Sparks Condo Fire West

A sparkler on a little girl’s birthday cupcake set off a fire Friday that filled a seven-story condominium building with smoke and forced 100 mostly elderly residents to flee into a snowstorm.

Bedding in the family’s second-floor apartment caught fire when the girl’s mother left the cupcake in her bedroom when she went to wake the child, said Fire Marshal Richard Kane.

The fire was contained to the apartment, which was heavily damaged.

Two people were treated for smoke inhalation and a third person for chest pains, while a firefighter suffered eye injuries, Kane said.