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Show Arlene Loble's Kitchen Damaged Volunteers Respond to Fires National Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 2 - 9) got off to a busy start in Park City with three fire calls since Saturday Satur-day afternoon. Firefighters were called to a condominium fire at Silver Town Lodge at approximately approximate-ly 5 p.m. Saturday. According Accord-ing to Park City Fire Marshall Herb Johnson barbecue bar-becue coals placed in a plastic paint bucket flared up on the deck of a second floor condominium causing the window above to shatter. The flames lept through the broken window igniting curtains cur-tains inside the unit. Johnson John-son said volunteer firefighters firefight-ers quickly subdued the blaze but not before between $2,000 and $3,000 damage was caused to the condominium. condomi-nium. Firefighters lingered at the scene for some time checking for hot spots and helping Michael Lowe clean up his damaged unit. Lowe was not at home when the fire broke out and the alarm was turned in by a passerby. At 3:10 a.m. Sunday morning morn-ing firefighters were . summoned sum-moned to the Fred Coleman residence at 130 Parkview in Summit Park. At the scene they found Coleman and his neighbors had all but extinguished extin-guished a blaze in a fiberglass storage shed-greenhouse shed-greenhouse attached to the main residence. Coleman estimates damage between $2,500 and $3,000 which largely accounts for the destruction of sports equipment equip-ment including a motorcycle stored in the shed. At this point the fire is being blamed on spontaneous combusion, according to Johnson. Gary Vetterli, one of the department's full-time firemen fire-men was on the scene and said Coleman admitted storing stor-ing oily rags in a plastic container near the shed after oiling his roof two weeks ago. An investigation of the fire indicated the blaze started near the spot where the rags were stored. Fire Marshall Johnson warns residents to always carefully dispose of oily rags after I their use. I And finally, eleven year-old Rachel Loble reported a greese fire in the kitchen of I her 803 Red Maple Ct. home at 6:30 Monday evening. The young lady was evidently making French fries when she was called briefly out of the room, according to firefighter Gary Vetterli. When she returned she found the hot grease flaming on the stove. Rachel immediately imme-diately left the house and ran to neighbor Rob Berry's home where the fire department depart-ment was called. Berry, a Deputy Summit County Sheriff, She-riff, had a fire extinguisher and returned to the Loble house where he had substantially substan-tially subdued the flames when the volunteers arrived. Firefighters quickly finished the job and were cleaning up when Rachel's mother, City Manager Arlene Loble arrived arriv-ed at the scene. It is estimated over $1,000 damage dam-age was caused to the Loble kitchen. Both firefighter Gary Vetterli Vette-rli and Fire Marshall Herb Johnson agree Rachel Loble behaved perfectly under the circumstances. She didn't panic, she didn't try to douse the flames herself, she immediately left the house and sought safety and help at the home of a neighbor. "I wish all children would behave like that in an emergency situation," said Johnson, "particularly when they're home alone'."'.-Throughout alone'."'.-Throughout Fire Prevention Week, Johnson and Vetterli will be making appearances at Park City schools to inform children and young adults of fire prevention measures and what to do. in the-event of an emergency. |