Thanksgiving. lights sirens suit up food coma. Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for fire departments. I think a large part of it is fun with family. We are visiting with relatives. We are in the other room watching football and or the kids get in the way in the kitchen. If you are frying a turkey do it out side never put a frozen turkey in the boiling oil and dont leave the yourself with a fire stay calm. Some people want to put baking soda, a wet rag, water on it; those are all bad. Make sure you have a cookie sheet somewhere near by and just slide it over it. If you find the turkey catches fire in the oven dont open. Keep it closed. And if it is serious call 911. The National Fire Protection Association discourages deep frying turkeys saying there are just too many variable that can lead to fires. Jessica hartman news 7 kwwl keeping children out of the kitchen during busy cooking times by having planned activities for them. A rainy night lets go to storm track seven chief
With more sunshine saturday pushing highs into the upper 40s. We are tracking the next storm forecast to bring rain sunday afternoon into monday morning. The wind will increase with this storms as temperatures stormtrack 7 weather team clouds will linger through the increases from the northwest at 1015 mph. Not much sunshine is in the forecast until maybe rain snow showers thursday night. No widespread travel problems are friday and saturday are dry with more sunshine saturday house fire in the three thousand block of briarwood drive in cedar falls. You can see the flames here. Theres significant damage to the upper level of the home but there are no injuries. The cause of the fire not yet knownbut stay with kwwl and kwwl investigating several cases of atm fraud. Cedar falls police releasing a photo of a man they say placed a device called a skimmer on an area bank stealing hundreds using peoples bank account information. Kwwls Jessica Hartman looking into how these skimmers work and w