Published February 10, 2025, 2100 hours PT

Seattle has been hit with some pretty crazy and large fires this year so far and we are only one and barely a half of two months. Here is a recap of some of the large fires happening in this big city.

STRUCTURE FIRE | 8100 block of 16th Avenue Southwest, Delridge

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JANUARY 10TH | Seattle Firefighters were dispatched by the Fire Alarm Center after the FAC received multiple 911 calls of a fire in a home in the Delridge neighborhood. First arriving Engine 11 reported smoke showing from outside of the residence. While working to locate the fire, a primary search was conducted where firefighters located and helped extricate the home’s two occupants while searching for a potential third person. Water was put on the fire and SFD members were able to bring the fire under control by 0932 hours. A secondary search was completed and they did not find a third person in the structure. It took a while for firefighters to complete overhaul operations due to excessive furniture and a heavy fire load throughout the residence.

Medics quickly tended to two patients in their 60s with one in critical and the other in stable condition.

Cause: Unknown

STRUCTURE FIRE | 14300 Block of Fremont Avenue North, Bitter Lake Neighborhood

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FEBRUARY 7TH | At 0532 hours PT, several 911 calls poured into Seattle’s Fire Alarm Center prompting the Dispatch Center to send multiple units to the fire located in the Bitter Lake community. The first arrive Engine 24 reported smoke visible from the rear of the home. This was Fremont Command. Water was quickly put on the fire, but it would extend into the attic and impact the support beams. Command pulled all firefighters out of the building for safety reasons, where they changed from offensive to defensive firefighting operations. The fire would be brought under control at 0714 hours and later transition over to overhaul operations and fire watch (to watch for rekindling).

While firefighting activities were occurring, other members were conducting primary and secondary searches. During this time, Rescue 1 located one occupant on the second floor of the structure and carried her to safety outside, where Medics assumed patient care. She was listed as a 55-year-old fire victim in critical condition, where she was transported by a Medic unit to an area hospital. A van and trailer on the exterior of the home were also searched but nothing was found.

Cause | Unknown

ILLEGAL BURN | Fremont Avenue North and North 46th Street

FEBRUARY 9TH | Two suspicious fires broke out in this same area on this date, with one being an illegal burn at 1445 hours and the other a rubbish fire at 1423 hours.

Cause | Unknown

FIRE IN BUILDING | 900 Block of Northwest 54th Street, Ballard & Woodland Communities

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FEBRUARY 9TH | At 0623 hours PT, the FAC began receiving 911 calls from multiple callers about a fire in a three-story building under construction with multiple exposures located in the Ballard and Woodland areas, prompting multiple units to be dispatched.

The fire response would quickly escalate to a three-alarm incident.

Firefighters reported this building under construction and ablaze starting to extend to an occupied townhouse building with eight units, located to the east of the fire building and threatening a second building under construction to the west.

With a three-alarm fire response, a scene will see 16 fire engines, eight ladder trucks, Rescue 1 and other additional support units. Collectively, there was a total of over 100 firefighters on the fire ground battling this extremely dangerous fire.

At 1000 hours, SFD firefighters had both fires under control and stopped them from extending to the second building under construction. The fire building collapsed and the second impacted townhouse building had significant fire on the second and third floors of the structure. One person in the second building was rescued and treated at the scene. She did not require to be transported to an area medical facility.

Multiple units were on Fire Watch:

1511 | B4, E20, E32, E35, E40 and L11 (3 hours 9 minutes)

Cause | Unknown, undetermined.

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