Cooking grease ignited a fire at a North Knoxville apartment complex that hospitalized two people Thursday night, officials said.
A resident in a ground-floor residence at Windsor Court Apartments, 924 Cedar Lane, was heating grease on a stove, causing a fire that quickly spread throughout the kitchen and climbed the wall into the unit upstairs, according to Knoxville Fire Department Capt. D.J. Corcoran.
The resident was burned and a second person in an upstairs apartment suffered smoke inhalation. Both were hospitalized, although their conditions were not available Friday morning.