Cooking is the leading cause of home fires. This means everytime you cook or are around fire you have to be alert.
Even if you follow fire precations fires can still happen. First get to safety. Then call 911 right away. However if you try to fight the fire make sure everyone in the household knows of the fire and evacuates accordingly.
Many home fires are started from an unattended stove well cooking. Whether that's from sleeping, walking away, or drinking. It's all the same result, a house fire.
When cooking with oil it's important to pay extra attention to the stove. As one wisp of smoke signals that you need to get it off the stove and let it cool down immediately.