Crime & Safety
BBQ Sauce Sparks Fire At BBQ Joint Near Issaquah
The sauce was smoking early Wednesday morning, and not because of spices.
PRESTON, WA - Eastside firefighters responded to an early morning barbecue blaze at a barbecue joint along High Point Way near Issaquah. Firefighters responded to the scene on a report of smoke emanating from Rhodies Smokin BBQ restaurant.
When firefighters entered the building to investigate, they found that some BBQ sauce was "burning off" in an oven at the restaurant. Crews ventilated the building, but did not find any extension of the fire.
It's unclear which sauce at Rhodies caught fire, but according to Yelp reviews, the restaurants "hooch sauce" is "holy hot."
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Crew located BBQ sauce burning off in the oven. No fire extension. Ventilating building. pic.twitter.com/BEyZWQ2cr8
— Eastside Fire (@EastsideFire) September 13, 2017
Image via Eastside fire
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