Here are some tips for staying safe in the kitchen when preparing your holiday dinner

Unless they’re planning to have their Thanksgiving dinner catered, many people will be in the kitchen this Thursday and in the days leading up to the holiday.

The Springfield Fire Department said Thanksgiving is consistently one of the busiest days of the year for cooking-related fires. And it said many of those incidents are preventable if people take some simple precautions.

According to the fire department, unattended stovetops are a leading cause of Thanksgiving fires, so you should stay in the kitchen when you’re cooking on the stovetop…

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