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Careless smoking has been blamed for three more fires in London this week, bringing the toll to seven blazes attributed to the dangerous behaviour in the city this year.

Investigators from the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal determined a Tuesday fire that that ripped through a house at 27 Glass Ave. and spread to a neighbouring home — causing $600,000 in estimated damage — was started by a carelessly discarded cigarette.

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An occupant in the first house, who was napping when the blaze broke out, was awoken by a smoke detector that likely saved the man’s life, firefighters said Thursday.

The fire started in a wooden deck behind the house before working its way inside after a discarded cigarette had been left smoldering for hours, firefighters said. The flames worked their way to the neighbouring home, where nobody was home at the time.