Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Practice News Story 2: Fire

OGDEN On Tuesday January, 23 at about 2:00 PM a fire broke out at Pedro’s Restaurant on the corner of Washington Blvd and 21st Street.
“Looked like it was some grease,” said Pedro Sanchez, owner and cook, commenting on the cause of the fire. Sanchez was cooking hamburger meat when the fire broke out. Only two were in the restaurant at the time, Sanchez and friend, Michael Freeman, who was having lunch.
There was no damage to any surrounding buildings. Although the building is still standing the restaurant suffered excessive damage, and the two floors above it had smoke damage.
Sanchez’s brother Miguel and his two daughters were above the restaurant when the fire started. They were taken to Ogden Regional Hospital. According to EMT team leader Cpt. Rick Thompson, Miguel and his daughters had minor smoke inhalation and are going to be fine. Sanchez also walked away from the flames with minor burns on his hands.
Authorities were contacted by Freeman.

3 comments:

cdegen said...

Good Job! The story flows very well. I noticed in the beginning you just put Ogden, maybe next time add "In Ogden" to make more sense.

Robert said...

It seems a little choppy to me. Also the OGDEN in the beginning isnt the way we learned the AP style

ametts said...

More quotations would have made for a more interesting story but it was very easy to follow and informative.