House fire on Dibble Ave.

Posted by Geeky Swedes on December 31st, 2007

We heard sirens and smelled smoke at 11 p.m. last night, so I grabbed the camera and ran over to the 6700 block of Dibble Ave.

It was one of those nasty basement fires that was kicking out a ton of smoke, and it took firefighters a good half hour to knock it down. It doesn’t appear that anyone was injured, and it looked to me like nobody was home at the time.

Update: The Seattle Fire Department says a dog and a bunny perished in the fire, and five people are without a home. The Red Cross has been called to offer assistance to the family. They didn’t mention a cause of the fire, other to say it was “accidental” and started in the basement.

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Pat

I'm a neighbor--in fact, that's me in the gray and black jacket standing in my driveway. The tenants were five young people, SPU students mostly. They weren't home when the fire started, so were not injured, but they've lost everything in the fire, including a dog, a rabbit, and a cat. The Red Cross has put them up for a couple of weeks in temporary lodging and given them money for groceries. They're OK, even in pretty good spirits, considering what they've been through, and they're looking for another place to live.

We expect fire fighters to be brave and professional, and these guys were all that and more--they were also very considerate and sensitive to the tenants' feelings, especially when telling them about their pets. And the Red Cross guys made me want to volunteer; it must be great to be able to come in and offer real tangible assistance to people in such difficult situations!