An accidental fire has caused an estimated $40,000 damage to an East Devonport home in the early hours of Thursday morning Today. The Tasmania Fire Service said it received a triple-0 call to a home at Marine St at 4.44 am. The resident was alerted to the blaze by their fire alarm and evacuated the house. Crews from Devonport and Latrobe attended and extinguished the fire around the top of the chimney flue.