Burning down the house

A flame from a candle inside a Port St. John home somehow ignited a woman"s hair as she tried to blow it out, which then caused a fire that spread to her home, according to a Local 6 News report.

Police said the fire happened at about 1 a.m. at the three-bedroom-home on the 6400 block of Hudson Road.

A woman inside the home tried to blow out a candle but it ignited her home, according to the report. The fire then spread through the house.

"From what I"m told a woman in the home was trying to blow the candle out when it got on some combustibles," said Bob Thirkelson, a battalion chief with Brevard County Fire Rescue.

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