Thursday, January 24, 2008

Practice News Story 2: Fire

Grease Fire Burns Down Building

Early yesterday evening around 2 p.m. a grease fire started in a restaurant known as Pedro’s Mexican Restaurant. The Deputy Fire Chief on the scene was Greg Chamberlain. He was uncertain whether the building would be able to be repaired and believes that the fire was started on purpose

Rachel Calhoun was unwilling to give up any information or any comments, saying she was talking with lawyers. The owner of the restaurant, Pedro Sanchez was in the kitchen when the fire started. “I was cooking hamburgers when the grease started on fire.” Sanchez was very upset, he has been living in American legally for two years and wishes to stay here and make his business grow. Friends around the community have offered to help Sanchez rebuild his restaurant in hopes it can flourish.

Pedro had a brother, Miguel, 27, who he lived with in the apartments above the restaurant with two daughters. The daughters, Maria Del Mar, 4, and Mercedes, 2, were taken to the hospital and recovered nicely. Miguel was treated on scene and is without any injuries as well.

2 comments:

Max K. Young said...

I am an IDIOT and meant to say that the fire was NOT started on purpose. My bad, i'm stupid.

Regan said...

Your news story was good! It had a lot of information and was very easy to read. You didn't state who Rachel Calhoun was though... also, maybe don't start your story with the day and time, start it with the most important information.