Four people were displaced after an apartment fire in Ellsworth Wednesday morning. The Ellsworth Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 50 Meadow View Lane, the location of Meadow View ...

Smoking is to blame for a fire that left one person with life-threatening injuries and several people homeless in Ellsworth Wednesday.

An elderly man was in the hospital with life-threatening burns Wednesday afternoon following a morning fire in Ellsworth.

ELLSWORTH, Maine (WABI) - Careless disposal of smoking ... Department says the fire started around 8:30 a.m. in an apartment on Meadow View Lane and moved into a community space.

The state fire marshal’s office says the improper disposal of smoking material at an Ellsworth apartment building caused a blaze that gave a tenant life-threatening burns and displaced four people.

The Ellsworth Fire Department responded to 50 Meadow View Lane, a multiunit apartment building ... then transferred to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where he was in critical condition ...