Fire! Fire!

When my friend Steve moved into his house, he had a cleaning crew coming in and clean. Apparently, they missed the broiler plate under the oven.

On Friday evening, Steve was having about 30 people over for dinner. He had the oven on for about 4 hours cooking lots of lasagna. After everyone was there (except me), the oven caught on fire. Thankfully, he had a fire extinguisher to help put some of the fire out, but he used that all up, so had to call the fire department. People said that when Steve came out the kitchen, there was some coming out his mouth and nose from when he was in there trying to put the fire out. The wall behind the stove was 160 degrees and there was a concern that insulation might catch on fire, but thankfully it didn’t. When I got there, the trucks had left, but there was ash on everything. The evening still was a success, there was plenty of other food and people all had a great time.

NOTE: If you don’t own a fire extinguisher, go buy one. Safety First!