Ann Arbor firefighters extinguish small blaze at Courthouse Square
Ann Arbor firefighters and police officers work the fire at Courthouse Square on Saturday.
Bob Needham | AnnArbor.com
Ann Arbor Fire Department Battalion Chief Robert Vogel said the call came in about 2 p.m. Saturday. Firefighters found that a man had been baking hot dogs in an oven in an apartment on the eighth floor of the building, and the grease from the dogs caught fire.
There was "light to moderate smoke" on the eighth floor of the building, at the corner of East Huron Street and South Fourth Avenue, Vogel said. Residents of both the eighth and ninth floors were briefly evacuated from their apartments, but they stayed in the lobby of the building.
Damage from the fire was confined to the stove, and residents were able to return to their rooms by about 2:30.
Comments
John Hritz
Sun, Dec 2, 2012 : 9:08 a.m.
A "small blaze" is an oxymoron. blaze/bl?z/ Noun: A very large or fiercely burning fire.
Ann English
Sat, Dec 1, 2012 : 11:42 p.m.
What did the man do, open the oven door once he realized there was a fire inside? I thought all oven fires, whether in built-in ovens or toaster ovens, would go out on their own if the oven doors remained closed; the fires would simply use up the limited oxygen in the closed oven and no real damage would be done to how the oven operated.
Befuddled
Sun, Dec 2, 2012 : 12:16 a.m.
You'll never know, until you try.