TN Crew Turns On Shower to Douse Fire
Source Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.
KNOXVILLE — Firefighters didn't have to reach for an extinguisher when they were called to a cooking fire at a North Knoxville apartment this week.
They simply turned on the shower head.
In what Knoxville Fire Department Capt. D.J. Corcoran called "a first in our books," a woman attempted to cook a brisket over an open flame in her bathtub, he said.
Fire crews responded Monday evening to 4834 Scheel Road to find the middle-aged woman fanning light smoke from her apartment. Inside, they found a melting fiberglass tub in the bathroom, he said.
The meat had been placed on a wire rack resting on the upper edges of the tub.
"The tub and the brisket were a total loss," Corcoran said.
The apartment below also suffered some minor water damage.
The fire captain highlighted the incident to stress that more than 50 percent of all residential fires are cooking-related.
"With that said," Corcoran noted, "most all of those documented fires are in the kitchen."
More details as they develop online and in Thursday's News Sentinel.
