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Quality cookware helps avert greater damage during Kelowna kitchen fire

Quality cookware helps avert greater damage during Kelowna kitchen fire | iNFOnews.ca
Photographer: Marshall Jones

CENTRAL OKANAGAN – Food left cooking in a cast iron pan brought firefighters to a house on Altura Road earlier this morning.

Kelowna Fire Department platoon captain Eric Simpson said crews were dispatched after reports of smoke coming from the front door of the house.

“A person in the basement tried to make entrance but the smoke was too heavy,” Simpson said.

Once crews got inside they discovered the source — thick smoke billowing from food left cooking in a cast iron pan.

“They had been gone for a while. They’re lucky they were using a pot that could handle it. If they had been using a cheap pot, it could have melted and it could have been a lot bigger fire.”

Simpson said residents shouldn’t count on such a happy ending.

“This obviously isn’t the first time we’ve been called in for a cooking fire. We would like to remind the public to make sure all cooking appliances are turned off before leaving the house,” he added.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca

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