UPDATE: Cause Released in Chesapeake Apartment Building Fire
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Updated: 10:41 PM Jan 7, 2009
UPDATE: Cause Released in Chesapeake Apartment Building Fire
The Ohio Fire Marshal's Office says a pan left on stove in an upstairs apartment is cause of Monday night's fire along old U.S. 52 just outside Chesapeake city limits.
Posted: 11:41 AM Jan 6, 2009
Reporter: Chris Atkins
Email Address: chris.atkins@wsaz.com
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UPDATE: Tuesday 1/6 @ 11:30am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSAZ) -- The Ohio Fire Marshal's Office says a pan left on stove in an upstairs apartment is cause of Monday night's fire.

We're told smoke detectors were present and they did activate.

The Fire Marshal says that cooking is the leading cause of fires in Ohio and in the U.S. Cooking is also the third leading cause of fatal fires in Ohio.


ORIGINAL STORY
CHESAPEAKE, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Firefighters are on the scene of an apartment building fire late Monday night along old U.S. 52 just outside Chesapeake city limits.

The fire heavily damaged an upstairs apartment above Deeds Family Vision Care. The blaze began in one apartment and quickly spread through three upstairs apartments. Flames were visible through the roof, and much of the building has sustained water damage.

No one was reported injured. Multiple fire departments responded and remained on the scene after 11 p.m.

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Posted by: Annette on Jan 14, 2009 at 08:34 PM

I am an employee at Deeds, and I would like to personally thank all our patients who have been so patient and have shown such compassion. We love all our patients and promise to be up and running within weeks. if you have something to pick up or need a repair, we should be able to help you now in our temporary south point location, just call us at the old phone #. we are anxious to be able to help you , and are working very hard to make that happen. I also would like to thank all the wonderful people for their concern for the tenants, my daughter was one of the tenants. The staff of Deeds care about all of you and hope you'll hang in there with us
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Posted by: 236 on Jan 14, 2009 at 01:58 AM

To Sadie, go to your nearest fire station and get an application if you think you could do a better job. The fire depts arround here need as many people as they can get. Instead of being negative, you try to make a diffrence and see how it feels when people like you are ingreatfull when people like us try to help.
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Posted by: 2KNOW1is2NEED1 on Jan 10, 2009 at 09:54 PM

My husband is the chief of a volunteer fd, he has more experience than most paid ff's & training in haz-mat, brush fires, chemical plant training, school fires & shootings, emergencies at the prison, jaws of life,automobile wrecks, train wrecks, tree removal,lol...he also has his FF1 and advanced first aid/cpr & I could go on & on with the training certificate hours, the point is, these men know what they're doing & they love it & their community- otherwise, they wouldn't do it for free! When the pager goes off at 3am-he goes & then still has to be at work(construction)at 6am.One Christmas, he was called out & was gone all morning & afternoon on a house fire. Firefighters do more than fight fire-remember those horrible accidents that you drove by or you had to wait til that tree was cleared-thank a ff.They assist full-code patients, drive the ambulance, search the woods for a lost child, fight fire in below 0 weather w/wet gear on.FF's see many tragedies & Still Go On the next run.
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