Oven Fire News Today

Other calls for Brainerd firefighters included an oven fire in Baxter.

Wyandot BBQ is smoking meat and taking care of customers again after an oven fire forced the popular Johnson County joint to close.

Disaster — whether it’s forgotten giblets or an oven that suffers an untimely death — can strike on Thanksgiving. We asked readers and our staff to share some of their Thanksgiving meal mishaps and we offer a few ideas on how to recover.

Firemen say today is the busiest day of the year. >> reporter: the kitchen can be a danger zone, especially on thanksgiving. why is thanksgiving day so dangerous? >> its one of the few days where lem everyone is preparing a meal. >> reporter: more fires start in the kitchen than anywhere else in the home, and on thanksgiving day in particular, there are three times more fires than any other day of the year. >> weve had fires where people took the turkey right out of the freezer, put it right in ...