This time of year is one of the most dangerous for students and household accidents, including fires. Sherry Kenyon Fire Safety Coordinator for the City of Boulder Fire Department has had to help students in the past when they have lost their homes to fire. It happens around midterms and finals, I used to be a Red Cross director. Many culprits cause fires in the home. The biggest culprits are candles.
People don t associate candles with fire.
A candle did not cause the fire that consumed apartment 207 at the Arapaho 701 complex. This fire happen when the residents left the stove on and left the apartment for the weekend. Other tenants in the building like Ashar and Zelenka, woke up Monday morning to the smell of smoke and approaching fire trucks. After the smoke clears the restoration process begins. Two days after the Arapaho complex fire, workers with Damage Restoration Incorporated came in to salvage what they could for the residents.