No injuries reported in apartment balcony fire

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

No injuries were reported in a fire that occurred Monday at a Columbia apartment building in the 1600 block of Hinkson Avenue.

The Columbia Fire Department wrote in a press release that crews were called at 7:32 a.m. and found smoke coming from the second story of the three-story apartment building.

Firefighters found a fire on a balcony in the back of the building and had the fire under control within three minutes, the release says.

The release says the most-probable cause of the fire was “improperly discarded smoking materials on the deck area.”