PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria firefighters are still issuing warnings in the post-Thanksgiving period about cooking fires, after one early yesterday caused $20,000 in damage to an apartment building.
Firefighters were called just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday to a two-story apartment building on North Great Oak Road.
The fire was put out in less than 15 minutes, but there was damage throughout the apartment.
On the bright side, fire officials say while unattended cooking was the cause of the fire, the apartment’s smoke detector warned the four occupants, and they were able to get out safely.
No one was hurt.
