Prairie Fare: Stand by your pan - avoiding kitchen fires

“I need to check something in the kitchen,” a colleague said. She was working from home.

“I hear the smoke alarm,” she added quickly before turning off her Zoom camera and microphone.

She sounded remarkably calm. I would have bolted from the room. And I probably would have forgotten to mute my microphone.

Several minutes later, she returned online. Her young children had started a fire in the kitchen…