UPDATE: Fire callout on 16th SW, second fire this year at same house
8:37 AM: Seattle Fire has a full response in the 8100 block of 16th SW [map]. Avoid the area.
8:40 AM: SFD describes this as a vacant building but says it’s evacuating neighbors as a precaution. Meantime, police are blocking traffic “in all directions” at the scene.
(WSB photos)
8:49 AM: Our crew has just arrived and reports plenty of smoke in the area. Photo added.
9:01 AM: Above, our crew reports heat from the fire appears to have damaged siding on a neighboring house. No injuries reported so far. Neighbors tell us they heard an “explosion” just before the fire broke out, and they say this house had a fire callout earlier this year (we’re looking that up).
9:11 AM: SFD says the fire is under control. Here’s our report on a fire at the same house in January. The archived SFD log reminds us that fire was also in the morning, with a callout just after 9 am. That fire sent two people to the hospital but so far, SFD confirms to us, no injuries related to this one.
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