Celebrating Turkey Day calls for an array of home-cooked meals, but Las Vegas Fire & Rescue wants to remind valley residents that kitchen safety can prevent disastrous fires.

Thanksgiving is the most common day for home cooking fires to occur, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue said, with more than three times the daily average happening on the holiday. Roughly 80 percent of structure fires on Thanksgiving Day are caused by cooking, and those fires accounted for 40 percent of civilian injuries sustained in Thanksgiving structure fires, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

While you’re in the kitchen this Thanksgiving, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue recommends you:

— Avoid wearing loose-fitting clothing and dangling sleeves

— Never leave stove top burners unattended, and turn burners of

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