MANCHESTER — Discovered late Thursday morning in a vacant Garfield Street home, a fire smouldered for hours, belching out a film of plastic soot but doing no significant damage, a fire official said.

The black plastic soot was end to end in the house at 42 Garfield St., said District Fire Chief Jim Michael. The owner is listed as Dan Lamy.

Michael said an eviction had taken place, and Lamy had recently restored the power in order to renovate the home.

An X-box was on an electric stove, and when the power was restored, an electric burner that had been left on energized, Michael said.

“The X-box basically melted to extinction,” he said.

The cause of the fire was listed as accidental.