Local fire department urges caution when cooking for Thanksgiving

Local fire department urges caution when cooking for Thanksgiving

Claim is december 16th.

The pandemic may keep your family apart this year for thanksgiving.

And that likely means more people cooking in their own homes.

The "national fire prevention association" says thanksgiving is the most dangerous day of the year for home cooking fires.

That's why the "posey township fire department" is offering some helpful reminders.

Statistics show fire departments responded to an estimated 16-hundred home cooking fires on thanksgiving in a recent year.

Unattended cooking was the leading contributing factor.

Stay relatively close.

If you have to leave the house for some reason and no one else is there..

Turn everything off and then when you come back, you can resume wherever you left off.

The chief also cautions against outdoor holiday risks, like turkey fryers that use hot oil.

If you use this method, be sure