Streamwood resident suffers smoke inhalation in kitchen fire

One person suffered smoke inhalation after a grease fire started in the kitchen of a Streamwood home on the 1600 block of South Green Meadows Boulevard early Saturday morning, officials said Monday.

Though the fire was contained to the kitchen and the damage was limited to the cabinets and appliances near the stove, there was smoke throughout the entire home, officials said. The victim was taken Amita Health St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates in stable condition.

Just hours later, Streamwood firefighters were called to extinguish a second fire that was also started in a kitchen, this one at a home on the 1600 block of McKool Avenue. No one was injured in the second fire. and damage was once again confined mostly to the kitchen.

Streamwood fire officials recommended people watch what they are cooking and always turn off burners when they leave the kitchen. Other tips to prevent fires in the kitchen officials shared were to turn pot handles toward the back of the stove, to have a lid nearby to cover a pot should it catch fire and to have working carbon monoxide and smoke detectors.