can unattended cooking develop into full blown fire?

[axeman]

i'm a fire fighter from singapore, and my boss of the rank colonel, thinks that an unattended home cooking cannot develop into a full blown fire.

any comment?

[RESQTEK]

Any cooking that uses a significant amount of oil can easily develop into a full blown fire if left unattended. I have personally seen two mobile homes destroyed and numerous kitchens in apartments destroyed due to unattended cooking.

[axeman]

hi...thank you for your time replying to this subject matter. appreciate it.

by any chance, do you know where can i get any statistics on fire caused by unattended cooking?

[RESQTEK]

Around here, all fire reports go to a central office. I believe it is the provincial fire commissioner's office. I would think they would have stats. I will ask around and see what I can find.

[Laura]

Check out www.firesafetycouncil.com for Public Service Announcements on Kitchen Safety.

As well, try http://www.nfpa.org/PressRoom/NewsReleases/CookingFires/CookingFires.asp for some stats.

[wfdpic]

your faithful leader should do more homework, in ontario Cooking fires are a leading cause of residential fires, and the one could say that they are all unattended. A careful chef would not let his/her food catch fire.

I think you'll find that no matter where you go especially in North America where our rate of fire deaths are terrible compared to other nations, and the number one cause is cooking.

See this website for Ontario stats

http://www.ofm.gov.on.ca/english/Publications/Statistics/default.asp

[handy]

i'm a fire fighter from singapore, and my boss of the rank colonel, thinks that an unattended home cooking cannot develop into a full blown fire.

any comment?

Of course unattended home cooking can develope into a full blown fire. Anything that burns LONG enough will develope into a full blown fire. Better bust your boss back to a private.

[Kearley]

Any cooking that uses a significant amount of oil can easily develop into a full blown fire if left unattended. I have personally seen two mobile homes destroyed and numerous kitchens in apartments destroyed due to unattended cooking.


Doesn't even need a significant amount of oil. Hot dogs in boiling water I've seen catch. What happens is the oils in the food get drawn out and that catches. It takes a LONG time, but if buddy puts the pot on at 8 pm then drifts off to sleep, by 2 am there's a fire.

[llerat]

anything left un attended while on the stove cooking will eventually start a fire. i have seen one fire started from boiling water in a pot. when the water went evaporated and the teflon on th epot melted from the heat and got hot enough to melt the element wires and poof it moved from there. do i would tell your boss to read this forum. and see for him self that he is wrong!

[FitSsikS]

........any comment?

Ya, I just experienced deja vu...all over again.

Anyway.....Ya, more comments here. (http://www.firehall.com/forum/showthread.php?t=490)

[Michael13]

i'm a fire fighter from singapore, and my boss of the rank colonel, thinks that an unattended home cooking cannot develop into a full blown fire.

any comment?

I'd say it can...because it's this years theme for Fire Prevention Week...Prevent Cooking Fires: Watch What You Heat.....

[fireman-911]

There was a fire a couple of days ago in Nothern NB - Campbellton area - that killed a woman. From what I read in the article the day after the fire, it was cooking oil that caught fire & burned the whole mobile home down.

[Whitewater_419]

It's not only the matter being cooked that can cause a fire; Over time, many ovens will accumulate matter under the burners from previous meals; If they're not cleaned out, you have a source of fuel under the burner - add the source of heat (burner) and you've got a potential fire right there that is completely unrelated to what is actually in the pot.

People with small children should make a habit of checking the oven before turning it on to pre-heat: My wife found this out the hard way when my 4 year old (at the time) thought that the oven was a good place to hide his "Super soaker" water gun - large amount of plastic in an oven set to pre-heat to 400 degrees Farenheit.

Put a pet in the picture and you have the possibility of the cat knocking something over on the element when it jumps up on the counter.

Unattended cooking is an invitation for an accident.