PROVO -- After responding to dozens of kitchen fire alarms, Provo City firefighter Peter Thorpe came up with a plan to prevent them. Here's the scenario: there's a pan on a blazing hot electric range.

Within minutes, the sheet was engulfed in flames, the fire alarm was blaring, and I was sobbing into a kitchen towel. Suffice it to say, I’ve never recovered from nearly burning down our ...

A resident says a cooking accident caused an extra-alarm fire that tore through an apartment building, displacing at least a ...