WINONA, Minn. – A couple on Sioux Street escaped a kitchen fire that left so much smoke in heir house that they couldn’t stay the rest of the night. They went to a hotel. This was about 2 a.m. The man said he had left cooking oil on the stove to go to the bathroom. The stove, an oven, and a microwave melted, and a cabinet was destroyed. The man admitted that he and the woman had been drinking, police said. They weren’t injured. This was on the 450 residential block of Sioux Street.
