News Release from: Clackamas Fire Dist. #1
RESIDENT BURNED BY KITCHEN FIRE IN MILWAUKIE
Posted: May 14th, 2013 1:39 PM
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Shortly after 11:30 this morning a resident called 911 reporting that her house was on fire located at 7755 SE Overland St. in Milwaukie. Firefighters were quickly dispatched and arrived to find light smoke from the building and an elderly female outside with burns to her arms. Crews went to work extinguishing the fire and treating the female patient. The patient was treated on scene and then tranpsorted to an area hospital in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries for further evaluation and treatment.
The fire was contained to the kitchen and was determined to have been an accidental cooking fire. In this case a grease fire was attempted to be extinguished with water, which caused a violent reaction with the hot liquid. Clackamas Fire would like to remind people to extinguish grease fires by covering the pan with a lid or to use a fire extinguisher.
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