Bardstown firefighters respond to kitchen fire on Mockingbird Lane

STAFF REPORT

Saturday, March 8, 2014, 1 a.m. — A Bardstown family was displaced from their home Friday night by a kitchen fire that happened shortly after 10 p.m.

The Bardstown Fire Department was called to a reported stove fire at a home at 103 Mockingbird Lane at 10:05 p.m. Friday. The incident commander who was first to arrive made an initial attack on the fire with an extinguisher. The next firefighters who arrived completed the job of extinguishing the fire and began salvage operations in the home’s kitchen. Firefighters removed the stove, the vent hood and cabinets above the stove and portions of drywall to be certain the fire hadn’t spread into the wall and ceiling.

The American Red Cross was requested to assist the family with immediate housing needs. Firefighters cleared the scene at about 11:50 p.m.

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