September 23

Police rescue elderly woman from fire

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Update: As Miriam notes in comments, below, an off-duty firefighter who lived in the four-story condo was the first to fight the fire. From the Fire Department’s Fire Line website:

Seattle Firefighter Daniel Hess who lived in the building was asleep when the fire alarm sounded.

The firefighter ran to his car and grabbed his firefighting gear. Hess checked the apartments below the fire and realized the flames were centered on the rooftop deck. He tried using a garden hose which didn’t pump out enough water so he grabbed the building’s one-inch standpipe hose and began dousing the 20-foot-high flames.

Read the full story at the website.

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Police officers went from door to door during a structure fire just north of here Thursday night, alerting the residents and assisting an elderly woman to safety, officers say.

The fire was reported just after 11 p.m., according to police.

North Precinct patrol officers were flagged down by a citizen advising them of a structure fire in the 11500 block of 15th Avenue Northeast. The officers could see flames shooting from the roof of the building and quickly notified the Seattle Fire Department.

Three officers entered the building and began alerting the sleeping residents to evacuate the building. The officers went floor to floor knocking on doors and assisting in getting everyone out. Two officers had to force open a door after being advised that there was an elderly tenant inside who was very hard of hearing. The officers were able to successfully get her to safety.

Then the fire department arrived to battle the blaze.

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  1. I have read that a condominium resident is a firefighter but was off-duty at the time, and that he donned gear to begin extinguishing flames until the SFD arrived.

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