{"id":91540,"date":"2019-11-27T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/turkey-101-an-annual-deep-frying-safety-reminder\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:49:06","slug":"turkey-101-an-annual-deep-frying-safety-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/turkey-101-an-annual-deep-frying-safety-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey 101: An annual deep-frying safety reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=54536cb6-b698-431e-81c4-738542f7e955&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1117\" alt=\"Farmington and San Juan County fire departments demonstrate what not to do when deep-frying a turkey.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Farmington and San Juan County fire departments demonstrate what not to do when deep-frying a turkey.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan County<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 It\u2019s that magical time of year again, when relatives near and far gather to toss a bird into a vat of hot oil. And to prevent your house, garage or eyebrows from getting singed, Farmington and San Juan County fire departments and San Juan College partnered to create a video illustrating what not to do.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, defrost those birds, folks. \u201cYou can\u2019t start with frozen turkey,\u201d warned Brandy Vega, Farmington fire marshal.<\/p>\n<p>Although if you\u2019re just starting, you might be a bit behind the game, according to Vega. With one day of defrost time needed for every 4 pounds of bird, \u201ca 16-pound turkey is going to take four days in the refrigerator to thaw,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to insurance claim data from State Farm, more than a third of the deep-fryer accidents happen in a garage or on a patio. Which is why Vega urges people to \u201cfry your bird outside. Make sure it is not near buildings and the area is free from flammable debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So your bird is defrosted and your fryer is set up outside. Next, Vega warns against overfilling the pot with too much oil. \u201cAs oil flows over the side of the pot, it catches fire and becomes a pretty big fireball real quick,\u201d Vega said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SFVObK2EARE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The warnings, while seemingly an annual pre-Thanksgiving ritual, are not without good reason. The number of residential fires on Thanksgiving Day is more than double the average number of fires in residential buildings on all other days throughout the year, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. This leads to an estimated $15 million in property damage, 60 injuries and five deaths each year in the country, according to the National Fire Protection Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have an emergency like this, things get out of hand very quickly,\u201d Vega said.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington Fire Department encourages anyone experiencing an emergency to call 911 immediately and get to safety.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:lweber@durangoherald.com\">lweber@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1: Defrost those birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1167,799,1523,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-91540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exclude-homepage-video","tag-farmington","tag-food-safety","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91540"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=91540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}