Woman injured in kitchen fire
A kitchen fire left a Chattanooga woman severely burned Tuesday evening, according to a news release.
The 41-year-old woman tried to carry a flaming pot of grease to the front door at her home at The Reserve at Creekside apartments in the 7800 block of East Brainerd Road.
Chattanooga firefighters arrived shortly after 5 p.m. Lt. David Cowden with Quint 21 said a neighbor had used a portable fire extinguisher to put out the fire before firefighters arrived on the scene.
According to Capt. Anthony Moore with the Fire Investigation Division, the woman was heating up a pot of grease on her stove when it overheated and burst into flames. She tried to carry the pot out the front door.
Moore believes someone held the door open for her, but that she got distracted by the flames and hit with the door, spilling the hot grease all over her.