Multi-Tasking and Cooking Causes House Fire In Lancaster South Carolina

5/29/2018 (Permalink)

It was only a pan of peas that caused a devastating house fire

Multi-Tasking and Cooking

No matter your walk in life, or the label society has placed on your age group generation. Every one of us at some point in time has opted to multi task cooking.  While this thought process can seem an innocent action in the grand scheme of life’s crazy schedules, it can also be deemed one of the most devastating, and costly.

SERVPRO of Kershaw and Lancaster Counties has been called several times for kitchen fires that could have been avoided had the source been attended. It is so easy to set a pot on the stove only to leave the kitchen and get side tracked with yet another distraction. In the blink of an eye your home can be enveloped by fire. You could be displaced from your home, belongs lost, treasured pictures, memories in the form of heirlooms, and daily needed articles damaged, or permanently destroyed. And yes if we are going to be real here, the ultimate loss would be loss of life.

Here at SERVPRO of Kershaw and Lancaster Counties cares, and to help you avoid a kitchen fire, I have listed below key elements that are fire-related hazards in a kitchen. Happy and safe cooking from all of us at SERVPRO of Kershaw and Lancaster Counties.

Fire-related hazards in a kitchen include:

•  Flames, sparks and hot gases from food

   preparation can ignite residues in exhaust ducts

• Food preparation equipment

   left without supervision during operation

•  Failure to switch-off equipment, especially

   at the end of activity

• Overheated oils that can lead to spontaneous

   combustion

• Food preparation equipment based on solid fuels
• Gas blowtorches used for browning some foods
• Poorly operating thermostats or lack

   of thermostat or fault-detecting equipment

• Faulty or overheating electrical equipment
•  Metal exhaust flues that conduct heat

   and ignite nearby material or debris

• Ovens without igniters/pilot lights

   (lit with burning pieces of paper).

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