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Kitchen fire in multi unit |
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Written by FF R. Banks
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
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At 17:54 this evening, Box 35 was dispatched for a reported fire in the 300 block of No 5th Street. During the response dispatch reported receiving several other calls that put the fire in the 300 block of No 6th Street. Engine 1 was closest to that area and arrived on the scene and reported a working fire at 309 No 6th Street. Heavy smoke was coming from the second floor windows in the front.
Firefighters advanced a line into the building and up the interior stairs to an apartment on the 2nd floor. Heavy fire in the kitchen of the unit was extending out the door into the hallway but the crew fought back the flames and had the visible fire blackened down within 10 minutes. Crews ladders the front of the structure and took out the front windows while other firefighters searched and ventilated the other units on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
The fire gutted the kitchen area of the apartment and heavy smoke damage was evident throughout the building. Red Cross was called to the scene to assist at least four adult occupants. The exact number of residents displaced was not immediately known due to many of them not being at home when the fire broke out.
Fire investigators responded and went to work to find a cause. The fire was believed to be accidental in nature. There were no reports of injuries. Units on the box alarm were Engines 1, 13, 3, 5 safety, Tower 1, Ladder 1, Rescue 1, Medic 602 and Cars 3, 5 and 7. Most apparatus had cleared the scene within an hour of dispatch.
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