A minor fire at a home on Tennessee Circle in the Cherokee Hills subdivision in the afternoon hours of Sunday, May 23, brought out the Seymour Volunteer Fire Department (SVFD) and damaged the kitchen of the homeowner.
Virginia Rickett of 224 Tennessee Circle, who has lived in her home for more than 20 years, had just finished making herself an afternoon snack.
“I had cooked myself a baked potato,” Ms. Rickett told The Herald. “The microwave had shut itself off and I had taken my potato back into the bedroom. My granddaughter had called so I was talking to her on the phone when I smelled something funny.”
Ms. Rickett put down the phone and went to the front of the house to find her microwave on fire.
“I tried to spray it with the sink but it was catching the cabinets,” she said. “So I went back and told my granddaughter what was happening then I hung up and called 911.”
The SVFD arrived shortly afterward and managed to extinguish the flames without resorting to soaking it. The microwave itself was destroyed, and there was some smoke and fire damage to the fixtures above it, but the house was mostly unharmed.
No one was injured in the blaze.

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