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Toddler Injured in Cooking Fire
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports a toddler was injured in a cooking fire. According to the report by Meg Jones, "A one-year-old boy was burned in a house fire Monday evening. When firefighters arrived at the two-family home around 7:30 p.m., the child and his...
Unattended Cooking Fire House Tour
We hope not, because the majority of of all house fires start in the kitchen. In this video from Australia, Fire Investigator Mick Forbes walks us through a unit destroyed by fire - the cause was a pot left unattended on the stove. Do you leave cooking unattended? ...
Fire: It Was the Best of Times, Worst of Times…
Lt. Tom Kiurski, a 30-year veteran of the fire service, serves the Brighton Area Fire Department in Michigan as an academy instructor. He writes about the "Tale of Two Fires" where two families in Warren, Ohio, had cooking fires where 10 adults and children perished...
Massive Cooking Fire Fails!
These would be funny if they weren't so darn scary! The Huffington Post brings us "Up In Smoke" - some very bad kitchen cooking fire experiences. Check it out here.
Never Leave Your House While Cooking
Seems like a no brainer, huh? An unattended cooking fire started about 9:30 pm in the first-floor kitchen of a multi-family, two-story dwelling caused $10,000 in damages in Evanston, OH, Monday. T. No one was home at the time, so it appears that the residents must...
College is Stressful Enough Without Campus Cooking Fires
Statistics and information provided in this graphic can be found on the U.S. Fire Administration and the official National Fire Protection Association websites. Campus and college cooking fire safety is one of GSSI’s major goals.
Gilbert Firefighter: How to Prevent Kitchen Fires
Gilbert Arizona firefighter Mike Conner is deputy chief of Gilbert Fire & Rescue Department, Community Services Division. Here is his advice which originally appeared in the Arizona Republic website. Question: What should I do if I have a cooking fire?...
Photo Montage of Cooking Disasters
Not everyone cooks so well that they can be on Top Chef or Food Network Stars. But these funny yet pathetic cooking disasters illustrate how dangerous cooking can be. Seriously, you can actually catch spaghetti on fire! Checkout these disastrous cooking FAILS!
Keeping Aging Fathers Safe for Father’s Day
Thanks in large part to advances in medicine, seniors are living longer and are a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. and world population. But health issues are not the only threat to the longevity of the elderly. After medical issues, the leading cause of death...