About 43 people remained homeless after a massive fire started Thursday in building eight at Dearborn housing complex from Peabody.

According to The Daily Item of Lynn, Fire Chief Steven Pasdon and State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said that the people from the building have been evacuated and no one was hurt except for some pets that were believed to have died in the fire.

Now, some of the 700 people who were evacuated can begin to come back into their apartments. More of them will return over the weekend, but a large number of the residents will be allowed to return only on Wednesday .

According to the Boston Herald, some parts of the apartment community still have the gas and electricity cut off. The crews  began to clean up the debris left by the fire.

Peabody Fire Chief Steven Pasdon said that authorities have found out what started the fire: a cigarette that was thrown away on a pile of mulch which was near a gas line.

Officials said that another fire started yesterday at the site but was quickly put down. Authorities investigated some of the buildings from the Dearborn housing complex to see if the fire stops were in place.