Family displaced after fire destroys home next to firefighter training ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Five fire departments responded to a kitchen fire that destroyed a home at 340 Shields Road Thursday night.

Madison County Fire Marshall Bobby Rollins said two women and two children were able to escape the house before firefighters arrived around 7 p.m. Firefighters from Moores Mill, Central, New Market, BoBo and Hazel Green helped to extinguish the blaze.

Rollins said a woman was cooking on her stove and thought she turned it off when she accidentally turned up the heat. He said the two-story house will be a full loss and that the American Red Cross is providing temporary placement for the family.

Frank Foster said he was about to drive his daughter to the store to get milk for her 7-month old son when she told him there was a grease fire inside the home.

"I got out the car to go in the house to see if I could try to put it out and by the time I got to the door it had spread. It caught the curtains and the kitchen, and they said it was gone," Foster said. "I'm blessed that I got my family out."

Foster, a Vietnam-era veteran and pastor, said he had been renting the house for three years and was recently considering renter's insurance.

Rollins said the house fire happened next door to the training center where three agencies were training volunteer firefighters.

"It shows how fast you can go from training to real life," Rollins said.

Source: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/03/family_displaced_after_fire_de.html

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