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An early morning fire on Wednesday
left a home intact, but a family tradition may be gone.
The fire started at around 8:10 a.m.
in the kitchen of Bonnie Clark's home on Harris Farm Road in Brunswick.
While no structural damage was done
to the home, Clark's kitchen and some appliances fell victim to the flames.
The loss of those items now puts a
planned Christmas dinner at Clark's home in doubt.
It was a meal that is believed to
have started the fire.
According to the Glynn County Fire
Department, a breakfast pastry left in a toaster caught on fire.
That fire engulfed the toaster and
other appliances in the kitchen, as well as a countertop and cabinets.
Clark was asleep in her bedroom when
she and her two grandsons, who were playing video games in another room, heard
smoke detectors go off.
That's when her grandsons took
matters into their own hands.
They immediately dropped to the floor
to avoid the thick, black smoke and crawled to a phone and called 911, Clark
said.
"They did everything they were
suppose to," said Clark, "I'm very proud of the way they handled themselves."
As the boys called for help, Clark
got to the kitchen, where she said a huge flame of fire, rising several feet
into the air, was raging.
"I just started throwing pots of
water on it," said Clark.
Firefighters then arrived and helped
extinguish the fire, which left a corner of Clark's small kitchen charred black.
No major structural damage to the
home was done, said Deputy Chief J.J. Ellis of the Glynn County Fire Department.
Firefighters arrived at the home at about 8:13 a.m.
"It seems the toaster was the thing
at fault here," Ellis said.
With Christmas just a few days away,
Clark already is thinking about how to work around the damage caused by the fire
and preserve plans for dinner on Sunday.
"We may have to have hot dogs this
year," she joked.
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