'Unattended cooking' causes $550K in damages at Battle Creek apartment building

A few minutes was all it took for ‘unattended cooking’ in Battle Creek to cause $550K in damages.

That’s the initial estimate investigators gave FOX 17 after a fire broke out Saturday night.

Battle Creek Fire Department says they were called to the Riverwalk Apartments around 8:45 p.m. and got the flames doused in 10 minutes, but —between the flames, smoke, and water to extinguish the 3 ^rd- floor kitchen fire— the Red Cross helped displaced residents from 8 apartments.

The estimate includes damage to the property and contents of impacted homes.

Investigators told FOX 17 the price tag wasn’t as high as it could’ve been, though; no one was killed, and only one person was treated on-scene for smoke inhalation.

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