A large fire at a Johnston County business was caused by a cigarette, the owner told ABC11 on Friday.
Wimpy Byrd, how owns Byrd's Wholesale, Inc., said it was actually his cigarette that caused it.
"I dropped it and the wind picked it up and nobody could see it. We've got pictures where it smothered out and then flames," he said. The fire broke out Thursday around 7:30 p.m.
Captain Bentley Powell with the Smithfield Fire Department said no one was at the warehouse at the time of the fire.