Illinois fire department fights rise in cooking fires with safety tips.

(New York, NY) A slumber turns tragic after a fire gets a child badly burned. Authorities say a dentist was throwing a barbecue inside her apartment when things turned badly. CBS 2’s Deborah Garcia has more.

The folks over at I Recommend Cooking have posted a list of cooking safety tips for kids. Aside from the usual cooking safety tips, the list contains a few that were interesting.

Did you know that cooking equipment was involved in 31 percent of all home structure fires reported in 2003?