A fire broke out at Colonial Homes Apartments on Keller Street in Blackshear late Saturday evening, but the flames were quickly contained with no injuries.
According to the incident report, Douglas Hill was cooking in the kitchen. Realizing he needed some ingredients, he turned the burner down to a low simmer and left for the nearby store. Dylinda Taylor was home when the fire broke out, but not in the kitchen. Confronted by clouds of smoke and fearing the worst, she leapt from a second story window to the grass in front of the apartment, then ran back inside to get her kids to safety.
Asked if she knew what started the fire, Taylor said a leak from the upstairs shower must have dripped into a simmering pan of grease, making it splash onto the hot burner. Hill told firefighters much the same thing. The official report said, “once burning the fire rapidly extended to the cabinets above the stove.”
