For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A kitchen fire in the 9400 block of Southeast 240 Street displaced an adult and three children Friday night, the Kent Fire Department reported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The fire was reported at 10 p.m. after oil used for cooking caught fire on the stove top. A garden hose was used to extinguish the fire but only spread the burning oil across the kitchen. Fortunately, a neighbor used a dry chemical extinguisher to put out most of the fire and to keep it from spreading to other parts of the two-story house.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n No one was injured and the fire damage was limited to the kitchen area. Smoke did spread throughout the house but was removed by firefighters from the Kent Fire Department RFA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The displaced family members will be staying with relatives, and Red Cross was not needed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kitchen safety: Kitchen fires are the most common type of residential fires that firefighters see. These tips can greatly reduce the chance of a fire or its damage if one starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tAlways cook on medium, not high heat, when using oil.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tAlways have the matching pan lid and an oven mitt handy to cover a burning pan with if it does catch fire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tNever use water to extinguish an oil fire. Water will spread the burning oil resulting in steam or oil burns.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tNever try to remove a burning pan from the stove top. This can result in burns and can spread the fire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tNever leave the kitchen when cooking. Remember to keep an eye on what you fry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tHave working smoke alarms in your home to warn you of a fire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022\tCall 911 if you have any doubts about whether a fire is fully extinguished or if a person gets burned.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A kitchen fire in the 9400 block of Southeast 240 Street displaced an adult and three children Friday evening, the Kent Fire Department reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16282"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}