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Small fire breaks out at assisted living community

Tri-City Herald
Richland Fire trucks respond a second time Wednesday to Riverton Retirement and Assisted Living Community facility after the report of smoke from the same area of an earlier kitchen fire. Firefighters decided the smell was a lingering odor from the earlier fire, said Battalion Chief Ron Duncan with the Richland Fire Department. Duncan said a sprinkler doused the original fire caused by a pan left on a stove. No one was hurt. Watch a video at tricityherald.com/video
Richland Fire trucks respond a second time Wednesday to Riverton Retirement and Assisted Living Community facility after the report of smoke from the same area of an earlier kitchen fire. Firefighters decided the smell was a lingering odor from the earlier fire, said Battalion Chief Ron Duncan with the Richland Fire Department. Duncan said a sprinkler doused the original fire caused by a pan left on a stove. No one was hurt. Watch a video at tricityherald.com/video Bob Brawdy Tri-City Herald

A stove fire broke out at a retirement and assisted living home in Richland on Wednesday but no residents were hurt.

Richland fire crews were alerted around noon to a fire at Riverton by Bonaventure on Bellerive Drive. A sprinkler system extinguished the small kitchen fire before crews arrived, said Battalion Chief Ron Duncan.

“Somebody left something on the stove and walked away from it,” he said.

Richland fire crews then received calls about an hour later because someone smelled smoke. It turned out to be smoke lingering from the previous fire, Duncan said.

This story was originally published August 31, 2016 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Small fire breaks out at assisted living community."

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