Iowa City Resident Suffers Burns in Cooking Fire in Home
I can’t stop thinking about how fast something so normal—just cooking dinner—turned into a fire that sent someone to the hospital.
It happened Friday evening in Iowa City, on Westwinds Drive. One person ended up burned after a kitchen fire broke out in their apartment. Firefighters were called just before 8 p.m., and even though they reached within five minutes, the flames had already been put out. Still, it was serious enough to injure someone and cause about $1,500 in damage.
This wasn’t some huge blaze. It was a small, contained fire—but it was enough. And that’s what makes it real. Most cooking fires don’t make headlines unless someone gets hurt. This time, someone did…