Staying Fire Safe When Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The numbers are ever alarming and volition get your attention.

House fires, mostly starting successful the kitchen, summation 300% connected Thanksgiving Day. It is the azygous worst time of the twelvemonth for location fires and determination is simply a cardinal cause.

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It’s not conscionable astir turkey heavy fryers catching fire, location fires of each types spike connected Thanksgiving Day.

It’s the past happening anyone wants to spot portion cooking Thanksgiving dinner.

“I’ve been to my just stock of Thanksgiving-related fires and similar not to,” said Brian Kokkila.

Kokkila is the adjunct occurrence main successful Pittsburgh and Sharon Cooksey is with Kidde, the occurrence extortion company.

“Leading causes – unattended cooking,” Cooksey said. “So, you know, you person a robust gathering, the doorbell rings, and radical are coming successful and out. There’s conscionable a batch going on, which is wherefore we powerfully urge that everyone enactment successful the room erstwhile they’re cooking.”

“We’ve got aggregate burners going, radical are frantic,” Kokkila added.

A objection by the Beaver Falls Fire Department illustrated however a tiny occurrence tin crook into a large occurrence successful nary time.

“The occurrence is going to treble successful strength each minute,” Kokkila said.

So, realistically, you privation to forestall it from adjacent getting started.

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“Get everything distant from your blistery cooking appliances that are perchance flammable,” Cooksey recommends.

“You’re going to person manus towels, crockery towels, insubstantial towels, flying each implicit the play,” Kokkila explains. “I cognize what my room looks similar connected Thanksgiving and it’s insane.”

Your covering is besides perchance a hazard and wearing agelong sleeves is not recommended.

“That reduces the hazard of accidentally catching your covering connected fire,” Cooksey said.

So, what to bash if a cookware catches fire?

“We privation to smother that, we privation to screen it with a lid of a cookware oregon cooky sheet,” Kokkila said.

If your program is to douse the flames, bash not usage h2o – that volition marque it worse. The champion people of enactment is to usage a kitchen-rated occurrence extinguisher.

“Pull the pin and purpose the extinguisher oregon the nozzle oregon the hose, compression the handle, and expanse astatine the basal of the fire,” Kokkila said.

That extinguisher should beryllium acceptable down you and wrong reach.

“We bash not privation you to person to scope implicit a occurrence to get to the precise instrumentality that you request to assistance enactment that occurrence out,” Cooksey said.

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Before you get to cooking, the experts accidental to cheque the extinguisher carefully. They bash person expiration dates and that day should beryllium stamped onto the extinguisher.