Kids Cooking Chicken Nuggets Start Fire At Beaver Falls High-Rise; 3 Treated For Smoke Inhalation
BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (KDKA) -- Tenants were evacuated from a 12-story apartment building in Beaver Falls on Thursday.
According to the Beaver Falls Fire Department, the blaze broke out inside a fourth-floor apartment around 11:00 a.m.
The kitchen caught fire after two kids were frying chicken nuggets and French fries, according to fire officials.
"The parent went to the pharmacy and no sooner, was walking up the street and saw the fire trucks," said Beaver Falls Fire Department Chief Mark Stowe.
The kids escaped unharmed. However, when firefighters rushed to the scene, they found several people trapped inside their apartments. Chief Stowe found one woman hanging out the window.
"She was hanging out the window screaming. She was petrified," said the chief.
Crews cleared the fourth and fifth floors while they knocked out the flames, which spread through the kitchen cabinets. Everyone who was trapped was rescued and brought to safety
Three people were treated on scene for smoke inhalation and required no further medical attention, officials said.
Smoke spread through the fourth floor of the building, leaving behind damage to the hallway and several apartments.
"When that happens, just close your door and go to a window and that's exactly what the people who were trapped did," Chief Stowe told KDKA.
