A fire that started in a ground floor apartment at 1730 Goddard Road in Lincoln Park began when a woman left a kitchen stove unattended when she went to the bathroom while cooking. She said the stove was engulfed in flames when she returned.
By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
LINCOLN PARK – The woman responsible for the Feb. 8 fire in an apartment building at 1730 Goddard Road said it began when she left cooking on the stove to use the bathroom.
The 46-year-old woman said the unattended food on the stove was engulfed in flames when she returned to the kitchen.
The fire was confined to the ground floor apartment, but smoke damage displaced all eight families living in the building.
A Lincoln Park police officer who was among the first on scene helped evacuate a 54-year-old disabled woman, who relied on a walker, from one of the apartments.