Lincoln firefighters responded to 1224 S. 21st St. at 2:47 a.m. Thursday to a fire outside of the apartment building.

Fire Inspector Chuck Schweitzer said the fire started because of a discarded cigarette and caused about $2,000 damage to the stucco siding and a portion of a roof near a second exit.

The five-unit complex, with about 10 people, was evacuated for about 30 minutes while firefighters worked and smoke cleared from the building, Schweitzer said.

Woman reports ice cubes, empty pop cans stolen

A woman came home to find nine ice cubes and five empty pop cans missing from her home sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, according to Lincoln police reports.

The burglars pushed open a window to the woman’s residence in the 2300 block of Washington Street and took the ice and empty cans, said Police Capt. Allen Soukup. The woman only wanted the incident documented and wasn’t requesting officers look for the burglars, who she thought could have been her son’s friends, though she didn’t know their names, Soukup said.

Loss is $2.

“We conduct investigations into all reported offenses,” Soukup said.