EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — A teen in East Providence was charged after a video surfaced of a student setting fire to toilet paper in a school bathroom.

It’s just the latest case in a string of dangerous stunts posted to social media by kids around the state.

The stunt at East Providence High School led to a school evacuation and a teen arrested.

“Fire can spread just like that, and it’s very, very scary,” East Providence Police Lieutenant Kurt Hawes said. “So when we saw something like that, we took it very seriously and started to investigate it.”

When the alarm went off, Hawes said officers initially thought it came from students smoking in the bathroom, then they saw the video.

“The first thoughts are this is a social media grab, right?” he said. “You want to get the views, y

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