Did you know that the most house fires in the Yakima Valley tend to occur on Thanksgiving Day? That's why I think these urgent last-minute Thanksgiving Day safety reminders are important for you to read--and share--and they come straight from some of our Yakima Valley firefighters.

Be Extra Safe on Turkey Day (and any other day ending in Y)

I learned the hard way how easy it is to start a cooking fire. There was this one time some years back when I thought could hack making a grilled cheese sandwich by turning my toaster on its side. BIG MISTAKE. Don't ever try that!

The grease from inside my toaster caught on fire and we had to run out of the house to grab a fire extinguisher from the common area of our apartment complex and put out the fire. I was very lucky I didn't burn the place do

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