Alarms sounded Monday at JBKO hall, after a fire broke out in an oven where food was left unattended. Priya Anand | Hatchet Staff Photographer
An oven fire burst out in the kitchen of a sixth floor JBKO residence hall room Monday evening, triggering alarms that evacuated the building.
The fire department received a call at about 5:30 p.m., when food was left cooking in the oven unattended, D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer said.
The flames were confined to the kitchen area and nobody was injured – firefighters found the room unoccupied.
Piringer said smoke escaped into the rest of the apartment but the damage was not wide-spread.
“As soon as they get the alarm reset we should be good to go,” Piringer said, adding that units would likely leave the scene within 30 minutes.
A kitchen fire also broke out at 1959 E St. Thursday, burning one resident’s hand as he tried to extinguish a grease fire from a pot himself.