Four-year-old boy starts house fire

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It happened at a home on Keystone near Martin Luther King. Firefighters say the boy's mother put her son in a back bedroom as punishment yesterday. They say the little boy later found a cigarette lighter, and set some bedding on fire.

Everyone inside the house got out safely, but the fire caused heavy damage to the home.

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