Kitchen fire damages house in Brier

Published 6:14 pm Tuesday, May 20, 2014

BRIER — An accidental kitchen fire on Tuesday caused more than $60,000 in damage to a house.

A woman in the two-story home on the 22300 block of 33rd Place W reported the flames at 2:40 p.m. She got out safely.

Crews from Fire District 1 extinguished the fire. No one was injured.

“Damage was confined to the area around the stove and the cabinets above,” said Leslie Hynes, a fire district spokeswoman.

Investigators determined the fire started in pans of cooking oil left unattended on the stove.