By Associated Press - Wednesday, February 1, 2017

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - A disabled man has been hospitalized after he was pulled from a North Las Vegas home after a fire.

The North Las Vegas Fire Department was dispatched Tuesday to a blaze at a single-family home. When firefighters arrived the flames had been extinguished, but the home was still full of smoke.

Firefighters helped evacuate family members, including a wheelchair-bound man. In all, eight people were displaced as a result of the blaze.



Fire officials ruled the cause of the blaze was accidental smoking.

Damage was estimated at $25,000.

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