With the recent increase of residential fires, the City of Sedalia and the Sedalia Fire Department are reminding area residents not to attempt heating your home or apartment with cooking appliances.
Sedalia Fire Chief Harrell has issued a PSA concerning using cooking appliances for home heating as the SFD has seen a couple of cases of this in the past week
All the recent house fires in Sedalia had one thing in common besides danger. None of them had working smoke detectors, according to Sedalia Mayor John Kehde