A kitchen fire sent a woman and her four young children to the hospital to be treated for possible smoke inhalation Monday afternoon, according to the Chattanooga Fire Department.
The fire was reported just before 2 p.m. at the Shallowford Trace Apartments.
The 31-year-old mother was making food on the stove when grease caught fire, creating a lot of smoke in her apartment, according to the fire department.
She tried to put the fire out, but after being exposed to the smoke, she was advised to leave the apartment with her children, the fire department said in a news release. A maintenance worker at the complex put the fire out with an extinguisher.
The family did not suffer any burns, but the woman and her children, ages 1, 4, 6 and 8, were taken to the hospital for possible smoke inhalation.
Firefighters ventilated the apartment to get the smoke out.