Kitchen Exhaust System Fires
Five-alarm fire claims O’Neill’s Restaurant
O’Neill’s Restaurant and Sports Bar on 53rd Drive was completely destroyed in a fire Monday morning.
More than 200 firefighters from 44 units battled the stubborn blaze that began around midnight in the basement kitchen of O’Neill’s...
WOODSTOCK— A fire last year at a local restaurant has landed its owner in hot water.
The owner of the Bamboo restaurant on Norwich Avenue has been fined $22,000 plus court costs for numerous fire code violations discovered after a November 2010 fire there.
On March 9, the company and...
EAST VILLAGE – A fire broke out in an East Village Japanese restaurant Friday morning and was quickly brought under control, fire officials said.
The blaze started just after 8 a.m. at Otafuku restaurant at 236 E. 9th Street near Second Ave., fire officials said. There were no injuries and...
Fire at Montclair’s Char-Coal Broil in New Jersey
A fire, which started in a kitchen exhaust fan, set the iconic Upper Montclair restaurant Char-Coal Broil (commonly referred to as the CharBroil) in flames last night. Owner Gus Makris told Baristanet that the Valley Road business would “be...
04/15/2011
HOLLYWOOD - Firefighters today quickly extinguished a grease fire in a ventilation duct on the roof of a restaurant in Hollywood, and no one was hurt, authorities said.
The fire was reported this morning at "Cheebo's" in the 7500 block of W. Sunset Boulevard, the Los Angeles...
US Fire Administration report on Restaurant Fires
Restaurant fires cost $172 million a year in US
A report examining the characteristics of restaurant building fires has been published by the United States Fire Administration.
According to the report, an estimated 5,900 restaurant...
Rutland firefighters were called to a Chinese restaurant Monday with reports that smoke and flames were shooting from the building.
Several businesses in the Price Chopper shopping mall were evacuated just before noon. Fire officials say parts of the roof of the Double Dragon had to be hacked...
Firefighters responded to a fire in Chinatown after smoke was seen billowing out of a vent of a restaurant Friday morning.
The alarm sounded around 8 a.m. at the Won Kee Restaurant at the Chinese Cultural Plaza. Firefighters were able to get the fire under control within a few minutes, but not...
Thursday, April 7,2011
Oak at Fourteenth keeps busy after fire
Steve Redzikowski, chef at Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, was on his way to work on March 9 when he received the news that his restaurant was on fire.
Oak had only opened about four months prior. Redzikowski and his partners...
Downtown Italian restaurant damaged in fire
By Isadora Vail | Sunday, April 3, 2011, 07:47 PM
The Sagra Italian restaurant in downtown Austin was extensively damaged Sunday after a fire broke out in the attic, officials said.
Palmer Buck, a spokesman for the Austin Fire Department, said the...
Fire at Lindbergh Field causes evacuation
By Maureen Magee
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 12:36 p.m.
SAN DIEGO — Dozens of travelers at Lindbergh Field were briefly evacuated Saturday morning when a small grease fire erupted at a restaurant in Terminal One.
The fire broke out around 8:15 a.m. at...
Crews Battle Two-Alarm Blaze At San Jose McDonald's
Posted: 4:17 pm PDT April 2, 2011
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Customers at a San Jose McDonald's were forced to find burgers and fries at another location or restaurant after a two-alarm kitchen fire shut down the restaurant and caused about $100,000...
Kitchen fire clears resort restaurant
Queenstown firefighters had to postpone their visit to the annual Emergency Services Ball on Saturday night when a kitchen fire broke out at Botswana Butchery Restaurant.
Restaurant patrons were evacuated when the fire started in the kitchen at the rear of...
Grease fire closes Galesville restaurant
GALESVILLE - Its owners hope to reopen the Garden of Eatin' restaurant in downtown Galesville by Friday, after a grease fire in its grill at about 9 a.m. today.
An employee was cooking at the grill when its grease trap began to smoke and quickly caught...
Air problems at La Rotisserie send 6 to hospital
By Katrina Ballard, Globe Correspondent
Six people were taken to the hospital today after feeling lightheaded at La Rotisserie restaurant in Newton, according to Newton fire officials.
The people hospitalized felt lightheaded while in the...
A restaurant in the 2000 Block of East Broadway Boulevard had to close after the kitchen caught fire on September 20, according to a press release.
The manager of this restaurant called 911 after a fire started in the kitchen duct work above the stove. Six people evacuated the restaurant and...
Fire breaks out at W. Haven eatery
Ann DeMatteo
New Haven Register
September 19, 2010
WEST HAVEN -- No one was injured Saturday when fire broke out at the Charcoal Chicken Restaurant at First and Elm streets. The fire at 71 Elm St. was called in at 12:43 p.m. Fire Capt. Bill Stacy said the...
Fire breaks out at Lau Pa Sat
SINGAPORE: A fire broke out at Lau Pa Sat - a popular food court in the downtown business district - Tuesday afternoon.
No one was injured in the fire, which occurred at about 3.30pm. The cause of the fire was still under investigation.
The centralised...
ST. PETERSBURG — A Chinese restaurant had to be evacuated and eventually closed following a fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon.
St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue was called to China Wok, 3433 49th St. N, shortly after 4:30 p.m.
It appears that the blaze was caused by grease that caught fire in...
Fire strikes Viking Grill & Lounge in Ellison Bay
The owner of the Viking Grill & Lounge in Ellison Bay says the goal now is to reopen as usual in April, after a devastating kitchen fire that closed the restaurant Wednesday.
"We usually are closed in January, February and March," Dan Peterson...