GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Police say a fire at a Kansas community college apartment started by boiling a candle.
The Wichita Eagle reports emergency responders were called at around 7 p.m. Sunday to an apartment fire on the campus of the Garden City Community College.
Police say firefighters extinguished the flames in a kitchen area after college staff had been unable to put it out.
The investigation found the resident had boiled a candle in a pot of water on the stove, which caught fire to the stove and surrounding area. The resident forgot the candle was on the stove when he left the apartment.
No residents were in the building at the time.
An adjacent apartment complex was evacuated as a precaution. The passerby’s minor injuries were treated at the scene by paramedics.
