Child playing with matches blamed for starting Goleta apartment fire

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GOLETA - A five-year-old boy playing with matches in a storage closet is being blamed for sparking Thursday's fire at an apartment complex in Goleta.

The fire -- on Linfield Place -- left 19 people without a home.

Flames destroyed one unit, burned another and filled the entire complex with smoke.

Damages are estimated at $100,000.

Nobody was hurt.

But fire investigators say it could have been deadly.

They're reminding parents to tell their children not to play with fire.