Firefighters from the Colorado Springs Fire Department were dispatched about 4:45 a.m. on June 26 to a home on the city’s south side for a reported fire, according to a Facebook post. The homeowners had alerted authorities of a “fire on the stove in their home that had been extinguished by one of the homeowners.”
Firefighters and rescue teams didn’t find an active fire when they got to the home and learned a resident had extinguished the blaze before crews arrived, the department said. The resident was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. No other injuries were reported.
But investigators found an interesting culprit when they examined surveillance footage from the home.
“After talking to the homeowners and looking through their home security footage, we determined their pup got a bit curious and accidentally switched on the oven which had some boxes on top of it,” the fire department said.
Video footage captured by the home’s security camera shows the dog jumping on the stove and sniffing the boxes before scampering away. Seconds after dog leaves, the boxes on the stove catch fire and the whole kitchen is engulfed in smoke.
If your stove can possibly be ignited when you aren’t home, don’t store combustible things on top of it, please.
Doesn’t matter what might set off the combustion - a short circuit, a dog, a small family member, a drunk family member…
Don’t store combustibles on your heat-emitting device. You’ll have a bad time.
Mine emits flame, and the only things I store atop it are metal (baking sheets and pans) or Borosilicate glass (like pyrex). But I’m looking to swap for an induction stovetop, because the gas explosion risk is enough for me to be uncomfortable!
You would think this would be obvious to everyone, but no, it is not.
I once lived with a person who believed it completely normal to leave empty but uncleaned pans and utensils inside the oven for days.
One day I am planning on cooking something, so I start preheating the oven.
5 minutes later dear god what is that smell?
Open the oven… dear fucking god, theres the uncleaned nacho pan from 2 days ago with the plastic spatula melted into a puddle on it.
Yeah, thats how I found out its apparently completely normal to do this, and not tell anyone, even though we’d already very clearly delineated dish cleaning times and shifts.
And thats why I don’t live with roommates anymore!
Gotta love living with people who are literally incapable of doing a single thing toward maintaining a common area, and also eat all your food without asking, while they are on a diet.
Bad dog!
first of all how dare you
Good dog, bad owner.
