Search For Cat Destroys Apartment

Bridgeport fire officials say the search for a cat caused an apartment fire that killed the cat and left a family homeless.

Officials say that a woman who used a cigarette lighter to search for her cat under a bed Monday night, accidentally set the bed on fire.

The woman tried to put out the fire, but it quickly spread and firefighters arrived at the scene in the home on Coleman Street.

The fire did kill the cat and left the woman and four others in the apartment homeless.