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People Checked For Smoke Inhalation After Fire In Rikers Island Cell

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Several people were being checked out for smoke inhalation Thursday evening after a mattress fire was reported in a jail cell at Rikers Island.

The FDNY said the fire was out before firefighters arrived at the correctional complex. They arrived around 8:10 p.m.

As of the 9 p.m. hour, fire crews were checking people out for smoke inhalation, the FDNY said. There had been no transports to hospitals as of 9:15 p.m., the FDNY said.

Further details were not immediately available.

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