Kitchen fire guts LaHarpe family’s residence

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April 22, 2018 - 11:00 PM

LaHarpe volunteer firefighters spray water onto a burning house in the 100 block of South Washington in LaHarpe Sunday. Two teen-aged boys in the home escaped uninjured. The house was a total loss. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

LAHARPE — A fire destroyed the home of Mike Scott and his two teen-aged sons early Sunday afternoon.

Scott was not home, but his sons were. The boys were frying hamburger on a propane-fueled stove when they reported flames gushing from the stovetop.

The fire quickly grew in intensity as the boys fled the home and sought refuge with a neighbor.

The kitchen was fully engulfed when LaHarpe volunteer firefighters arrived at the scene.

The volunteers knocked down the flames in the room, but the burning embers had already reached the home’s roof.

Soon, a raging…

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