Two Hurt, One Sent to Toronto Burn Unit After Owen Sound Apartment Fire
Crews found the fire already out and the unit full of smoke. Owen Sound Fire says the cause was unattended cooking, with damage near $10,000.
Two people were taken to hospital — one later transferred to a Toronto burn unit — after a fire in an Owen Sound apartment on Wednesday night, which the city’s fire service has attributed to unattended cooking.
Though Owen Sound Fire and Emergency Services said they responded to reports of smoke coming from a unit, with Owen Sound Police Service and Grey County Paramedic Services assisting, they did not indicate where in the city the report occurred.
Numerous local social media users reported a large emergency services presence on Wednesday evening at a 4th Ave E apartment building near St. Mary’s Hill.
Owen Sound Fire said that crews found the apartment full of smoke and the fire already out when they arrived.
Eleven firefighters responded. Crews ventilated the unit to clear the smoke and helped paramedics treat the patients at the scene.
Both occupants suffered burn injuries and were taken to hospital. One was later released; the other was transferred to a Toronto hospital’s burn unit for specialized care, the fire service said. It did not provide an update on that patient’s condition.
The fire service estimated damage at about $10,000 and said an investigation determined the cause was unattended cooking.
Owen Sound Fire and Emergency Services used the incident to remind residents not to leave cooking unattended and to stay in the kitchen while food is on the heat. If a fire starts in a pot or pan, the service advises sliding a lid over it to smother the flames and shutting off the burner when it is safe to do so — and never moving a burning pot or putting water on a grease fire, which can spread it.
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