A tenant at a Butler apartment building is being credited with coming to the rescue of a neighbor whose clothes apparently caught fire Tuesday night, authorities said.

A 36-year-old woman, who lives at the two-story, four-unit building on Cecilia Street, was taken to an unknown Pittsburgh hospital after the fire call shortly before 10 p.m. Butler Fire Chief Chris Switala described the burns as “serious.”

The cause of the fire, he said, was “cigarette-smoking related.”

Switala said it appeared that the woman was in the living room at her first-floor apartment when the fire accidentally ignited her clothes. The apartment's smoke detector went off and alerted one of the upstairs tenants who helped put out the fire and called 911.

This is a breaking news report — read the full article in Thursday's Butler Eagle.