TN Dept. Uses Station Kitchen Fire as Educational Opportunity

Fire doesn’t discriminate.

The crew assigned to Nashville’s station 1 found that out Sunday afternoon.

They were cooking when the tones dropped and they dashed out to respond to an apartment fire. As it turned out, it was nothing, News Channel 5 reported. 

The next alert they received had a familiar address – their station. They found fire shooting out of the roof and the kitchen engulfed in flames.

When firefighters dashed out to gear up, they had left a pot of food on the stove.

Instead of trying to hide what happened, they used the experience as a teachable moment by inviting the media to share the story.

Here we are, we are just like you because we’re in your community. We’re just inviting you into this space to show you, it can happen anywhere, even at a fire station," PIO Kendra Loney told reporters.

She also was the first to admit, the best thing they could have done to avoid this would be following their own advice.

Firefighters will be responding from another station for a few weeks or longer.

Some of the stations are equipped with sprinklers. However, there’s not enough in the budget to install them in all the stations.