A Chinese restaurant in west Columbia is temporarily closed after a commercial wok started a small grease fire yesterday.
Columbia firefighters were dispatched just before 5 p.m. to China Star Restaurant, 3100 Broadway Business Park Court, to a report of a commercial structure fire, Battalion Chief Steve Sapp said in a news release. The fire was extinguished by an automatic fire extinguishing system in the exhaust hood before firefighters arrived.
No one was injured. The wok suffered minor damage, but there was no smoke or fire damage to other portions of the restaurant or building, Sapp said.
Investigators determined that oil in the wok caught fire and activated the extinguisher system, Sapp said. The Columbia/Boone County Health Department also responded because the fire occurred in a restaurant.
The restaurant will be closed while the hood suppression system is recharged and the hood and exhaust system are cleaned, Sapp said. Management hoped to reopen the business later today, Sapp said, although the restaurant will have to pass health and fire inspections before reopening.
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