Hamilton firefighters responded to a kitchen fire in the lower city on Thursday evening.

Firefighter Matt Olinski, the shift chief at the scene on Wentworth Street near Main, said he was told the fire broke out in the basement of a home.

Five stations responded to the blaze shortly before 6:30 p.m.

Olinski said the stovetop fire went out on its own and no one was injured. He estimated damage at $50,000.

Pieces of the damaged stove and wall pulled from the basement after a fire on Wentworth Street on Thursday. Démar Grant/The Hamilton Spectat

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