Cooking fire causes $50,000 damage to SW Redmond home

An unattended cooking fire caused an estimated $50,000 damage to a southwest Redmond home early Thursday morning, but the two occupants escaped uninjured, officials said.

Redmond Fire and Rescue was dispatched around 5:35 a.m. to the reported cooking fire at a home in the 2000 block of Southwest 23 rd Street that began on the stovetop and spread to the microwave and cabinets above, said Fire Marshal Traci Cooper.

Redmond police arrived first to find smoke and flames visible from the front porch kitchen window, Cooper said. Officers were able to discharge a fire extinguisher through the open window and contain most of the fire to the area of origin, she added.

Cooper said the occupant’s 20-year-old granddaughter had heated a pan of oil on the stove, then left it unattended for an extended period.

Smoke alarms alerted her to the fire, and she then awakened her sleeping grandmother, who evacuated the home after trying to put out the fire, Cooper said.