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News brief: Kitchen fire damages Country Cousin restaurant

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A kitchen fire early this morning has Country Cousin restaurant in Centralia shut down.

Fire investigators are on the scene trying to determine the cause. Nobody was reported injured.

Firefighters were called about 4:45 a.m. to the eatery on the 1000 block of Harrison Avenue just west of Interstate 5.

An employee called for help and got himself out; the restaurant was not otherwise occupied, said Riverside Fire Authority Capt. Casey McCarthy.

It originated in the cooking appliances.

“The sprinklers held the fire to under the hood system, and we were able to get in there and finish putting the fire out,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy described the damage as moderate and confined to the appliances.