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Was it that last pair of jeans?
That's what Quincy House residents wondered on Monday, after an overloaded washing machine began to smoke and then set off a fire alarm.
Several Cambridge fire trucks and an ambulance rushed to the scene in a "precautionary response," according to Lieutenant Edward L. Enos of the Cambridge Fire Department.
"We checked it out, and that's what it turned out to be," he said.
Enos said a motor inside the washing machine had burned out, causing a belt attached to the motor to smoke.
The machine "corrected itself," Enos said, and the smoking stopped. No fire ever developed, and there were no injuries.
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