According to investigators, cooking oil caused a fire in a woman’s and her adult son’s Cliffside Park, New Jersey, home Monday night, gravely injuring both.
Before the fire broke out, the woman was in the kitchen at the house on Lawton Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. Fire Chief Gregory Yfantis stated that she was deep-frying food when she took a few minutes to tend to the dogs.
According to Yfantis, the cooking oil caught fire during that period, filling the house with smoke and flames.
She was attempting to put out the fire on her own. Yfantis stated, “We don’t know if it was with water or a fire extinguisher.”
According to Yfantis, the son, who is in his 20s, was in an upper bedroom when he came out to discover the kitchen on fire.
According to Yfantis, the mother was burned in the second degree, and the kid was burned in the third degree when he emerged from the attic after the kitchen area was enveloped by the fire.
According to officials, both were transported by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center before being sent to Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center’s burn unit in Livingston.
According to Yfantis, the woman’s injuries weren’t thought to be life-threatening. On Tuesday, authorities were unaware of her son’s condition.
According to Yfantis, it took almost an hour and forty minutes to put out the three-alarm fire.
The Bergen County prosecutor’s office and the Cliffside Park Prevention Bureau are looking into it.
You may contact Anthony G. Attrinomay [email protected]. @TonyAttrino is his Twitter handle.
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