Around 3:40pm, Monday, emergency personnel were dispatched to 323 West Cherry Street, Shenandoah, for a house fire.
As police and the first fire personnel arrived, the fire was reported as a working fire in a first floor room of the home.
By 3:55pm, the fire was reported out with firefighters checking for extensions which turned up negative.
Firefighters remained on scene to ventilate the home. No nearby homes were damaged.
According to Shenandoah Fire Marshal, Rick Examitas, the cause of the fire was determined to be a culinary incident from a pot with oil left on a stove. One resident was evaluated but no injuries were reported.
Examitas credited working smoke alarms in the home for waking a child that was sleeping upstairs. The child escaped the home during the fire while smoke filled the 1st floor of the home.
Fire units from Shenandoah, Mahanoy City, and Frackville responded to the scene.
