Indeed. Especially in a high rise. 15 years ago a lady on the same floor as me got a little carried away with the soul food and set all the cabinetry in the kitchen on fire. Thankfully it was a concrete building but management later installed these safety covers over the heating coils on the stove that made them take forever to heat anything. Before that it was one of the best electric stoves I ever had.
Way back in the 70s we lived on the 21st floor of a high-rise. One day I saw what looked like gallons of water streaming down from the next floor onto our balcony. I ran upstairs to investigate and knocked on the door of the suite directly above us. A lady came to the door to explain that her roast had caught fire in the oven, so she had set it out on her balcony and doused the fire with buckets of water. She had put the roast into the oven with the wrapper still on it! Her husband arrived while we were talking, because she had phoned him at work for assistance. He was shaking his head, saying "I don't believe it," and obviously trying to stifle a laugh. Now that I think about it, she should have shut off the oven and left the roast inside with the oven door shut, instead of trying to rescue her dinner. Otherwise, exposure to the air could have made matters much worse.
The fire department hadn't been called, but it's lucky that the suite hadn't caught fire, because it would have been difficult to fight at that height. In fact, it's a known fact that apartment dwellers living higher than the third floor run the risk of not getting medical aid from first responders quickly enough, should the need arise.
