A building fire broke out at about 2:03 p.m yesterday afternoon on the corner of 21st and Washington. The fire broke out from the main floor in the kitchen area of Pedro’s Mexican Restaurant. Two apartment units in the building above the restaurant where damaged, including the owner of the restaurants apartment. Fire fighters responded immediately to the blaze and extinguished the fire within the hour. Officials have estimated this to be a total loss to the building.
The deputy Fire Chief, Greg Chamberlain was one of the first on the scene. He and four other firemen attended the blaze and were able to extinguish it and get the victims out with only one suffering a burned hand. The others in the building were sent to Mc Kay- Dee Hospital for smoke inhalation.
Pedro Sanchez, the owner of the restaurant was one of two people in the restaurant at the time of the fire.
“The fire.. it got on the grease and I grabbed the extinguisher and I tried to put it out, but it was too late.” Pedro’s restaurant, which has been in business for a little over 2 years is what Pedro and his brother Miguel (who has only lived here for 6 months) have to hold on to.
“I like my restaurant, I’ll do it again. I just don’t know where or how.” After all was over, Pedro said, “ This is the first time this has happened to me. I’m glad everyone was able to walk away from this.”
2 comments:
The story had good quotes in it, long quotes that told the story in themselves, good job there. I am not sure what those intermediate lines are, the ones thay say like end para and all that? It was a little confusing about the people going to the hospital, it almost sounds like the guy that got his hands burned didn't go to the hospital. Good organization though by opening it up with enough to get someone interested, and then spreading the facts out through the story.
There were a some errors with punctuation such as leaving out some commas. But good job with all the quotes.
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