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• Stored gasoline fueled last week’s fatal fire in Cranston 

The fire that killed a 15-year-old boy in a Cranston apartment last week was driven by containers of gasoline stored in his bedroom.

Kyle Mather, a freshman at Cranston High School East, was known as someone who "liked to play with fire" and had been seen starting fires outside, said state Fire Marshal Jack Chartier.

Chartier said it was not known whether Kyle deliberately started the fire that engulfed his bedroom in his family's second-floor apartment at Cranston Commons East, or whether vapors escaping from the three containers of gasoline were ignited accidentally by an open flame, such as a lighter. The boy's mother allowed him to smoke cigarettes, and fire investigators found seven or eight lighters in the charred bedroom, along with the remnants of three gasoline containers.

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