Grease fire displaces Worland residents from hom
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Karla Pomeroy
Sage Crossing Apartments site manager Tony Hernandez Lopez (right) lets Worland firefighters know that there is some smoke in the adjacent apartment to where a grease fire was ignited Thursday morning.
WORLAND — A grease fire Thursday morning destroyed a kitchen and had several apartment residents evacuated for a short time at the Sage Crossing Apartments.
Worland Fire Capt. Brandon Yule said resident Robyn Hance was heating up oil on her electric range to make french fries. She went upstairs and forgot about the oil until she heard the smoke/fire alarm and came downstairs. She saw the fire and threw a bucket of water. The water, reacting to the boiling grease ignited the cabinets on fire.
“It was a classic throwing-water-on-a-grease-fire mistake,” Yule said. He reminds residents,...
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