Firefighter/EMT Cory Hagan of the Burton Fire Department steps back as the turkey he just placed in boiling oil erupts into a fireball during a demonstration of what happens when everything goes wrong while trying to fry a turkey for Thanksgiving. In the perfect scenario gone wrong; the oil was too hot, the cauldron was too small and overfilled and the turkey was still semi-frozen. Capt. Dan Byrne of the Burton Fire District said, “the majority of home fires we respond to start in the kitchen. The majority of those start on the stove.”
3: After the fire had burned itself out, Firefighter/EMT Cory Hagan removes the turkey from the pot of hot peanut oil. Frying turkey in the Low Country has become very popular. Capt. Dan Byrne of the Burton Fired Dept. said the majority of fire calls are kitchen fires usually started by unattended cooking on the stove.
Photos by Bob Sofaly/The Island News
