You hear the incoming alarm sound at your fire station. Your heart rate increases, your muscles tense up, and you spring into action! Your instincts, your training, your experience, it all gets shrunk down to that one call for help that YOU have received!
We’re all human, and therefore all a bit forgetful in the heat of the moment. What about the burger you were frying on the stove when the call came in? Did you move the pan off the burner? Did you even turn the burner off!? It’s hard to remember these things when lives are on the line.
“We’re just as vulnerable as everyone else,” Public Information Officer Kendra Loney said, talking about a stovetop fire at her station. “The irony is not lost on me.” A pot of food was left cooking on the stove, or as another Fire Chief put it, “Firefighters are human just like everyone else, and sometimes mistakes occur when in a rush.”
We’ve all heard and read the stories of stove top fires at fire stations after rushing to a call. Below are some examples… If only they had installed a Denlar ClockBox™.
“Fire station blaze began when firefighters left stove on while responding to call”
The firefighters had just begun cooking dinner around 6 p.m. when they were called to a dryer fire at a nearby home.”
Sept 25, 2017
GA Firefighters Find a Blaze at Their Station After a Stove Is Left On in Rush to Burning Home
Firefighters with Hall County’s Station No. 5 were making breakfast in their kitchen when they received a call to respond to a residential fire
Jan 31, 2023
‘The irony is not lost on me’: Nashville FFs leave stove on during run, kitchen burns.
Firefighters returned to the station to find fire coming from the roof
Jun 13, 2023
Fire Breaks Out at TX Station while Firefighters at Call
Fire & Rescue crews at Station 5 were responding to a fire when their own firehouse began burning
June 22, 2021
Kitchen fire breaks out at Chesterfield fire station
Chesterfield firefighters were away on a call on Monday night when a fire started in the kitchen
Dec 21, 2020
