Practice News Story 2: Fire

Building Destroyed After Fire
Around 2:00 PM on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Ogden’s local fire department received a phone call from a customer at Pedro’s Mexican Restaurant located on the corner of 2100 and Washington Boulevard.

Deputy fire Chief, Greg Chamberlain was on the scene.
The Building was a 3 floors with a restaurant on the lower level and two apartments upstairs.
Chamberlain says that it looks as if the fire started in the kitchen, spread through out the restaurant and then consumed the rest of the building. The fire was contained within the hour but unfortunately the building was completely destroyed. No neighboring buildings were harmed.

"Building is a loss, human life is important," says Chamberlain.

Pedro Sanchez, owner of the restaurant and resident of the apartment, was cooking in the kitchen when the fire he was cooking with spread to some grease on the stove. Sanchez tired using a fire extinguisher to put out the fire but says that the fire " was too big." While trying to put out the fire Sanchez experienced burns on his hands. He was taken to the McKy-Dee Hospital for treatment and has been told that he will be ok." It was the scariest thing I have ever been apart of," said Sanchez.

Sanchez’ brother and two nieces, who share the apartment, were on the second floor. Luckily they were able to escape the building and were rushed to the McKy-Dee Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.

Rachel Calhoun., owner of the building for the past 15 years, was on the scene shortly after the fire started.
" The building is fully insured and up to fire codes," said Calhoun.
Calhoun had been renting the building to Sanchez for the past 22 months and believes that this was just an accident. " I’m just glad that everyone is able to walk away from this."

There were no significant injuries and everyone is just glad to be ok.