Grease fire damages home

CALLAWAY -- A cooking fire has left a Callaway man without a roof over his head.

The three-bedroom house at 6700 Chipewa Street sustained major damage to the kitchen area, attic and roof after a fire spread from grease on the stove at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.

No injuries were reported.

One man was home at the time the cooking fire got out of control, according to Lt. Dustin Crum of Callaway Fire Department.

“He was cooking on the stove with some grease and it spread from there,” Crum said. “The burn pattern looks pretty straight forward: it started on the stove, spread to the cabinets and got into the attic from there.”

Callaway and Springfield fire departments got on the scene at 8:32 a.m. Fire crews reported the fire under control by 8:44 a.m.