Houma apartment set ablaze after flower pot used as ash tray catches fire

HOUMA — The outside of a Houma apartment building was set ablaze Sunday night when a flower pot caught fire.Firefighters from the Bayou Cane Fire Protection District responded to the fire at the Stones Throw Drive complex around 9:30 p.m. According to security footage, the fire was caused when the flower pot, which was being used as an ash tray, caught fire.Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire at the two-story building. The damage was confined to the exterior of the building, wi