Firefighters were called to a blaze in the stairwell of a block of flats in Rutland Street, Melton.
Crews from Melton and Oakham station discovered a discarded sofa in a ground floor communal area was on fire, at around 5.25pm yesterday (January 31).
The blaze was put out at about 5.50pm.
A spokesman for the fire service said the fire was caused by "carelessly discarded smoking materials" and no-one was injured or rescued during the incident.
