A family woke up just in time early Wednesday morning to escape their burning Nicholasville home.
Firefighters say a man fell asleep while smoking a cigarette inside his home on Orange Blossom Court in the Orchard subdivision.
A smoke detector eventually woke up a woman and two children also inside the home.
The man who was smoking suffered minor burns to an arm and stomach.
He went to the hospital to be checked out.
