The person was not taken to a hospital following the fire early Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. 8:55 am, Feb. 25, 2021 ×
A Southeast Rochester resident was evaluated for smoke inhalation following a grease fire that caused about $50,000 worth of damage.
Members of the Rochester Fire Department were called around 12:50 a.m. Thursday to the Andover Apartments, 2040 8 1⁄2 St. SE B, for a report of a stove fire. The fire was put out by someone in the apartment using a fire extinguisher before fire crews arrived, but there was heavy smoke in the apartment. Some materials on top of the cupboard were still smoldering and firefighters used a pump can extinguisher to put it out.
The man, whose identity was not released, suffered burns Tuesday morning, Feb. 2. 8:58 am, Feb. 3, 2021 ×
Rochester firefighters extinguish a fire on a boat Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, at Rochester Storage. (Rochester Fire Department photo)
A man suffered burns Tuesday morning after a boat at a northwest Rochester storage facility caught fire.
Members of the Rochester Fire Department were called just before 10 a.m. to Rochester Storage, 926 37th Ave. NW, for a report of a vehicle fire. A boat in the parking lot of the facility had caught fire. A man, whose identity was not released, suffered burns in the fire.
The fire department said in its news release that the man had crawled out of the boat. He was taken by ambulance to Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys.