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Seattle Fire: Smoking likely cause of Capitol Hill apartment blaze that sent one to hospital

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Firefighters rescued one person and quickly knocked down an apartment fire believed to have been caused by improperly discarded smoking materials Wednesday, the Seattle Fire Department says.

Crews were called to the address of the Caroline W. apartments around 11:20 AM to a report of a fire on the second floor of the five-story building developed by the Community House mental health agency as housing for tenants recovering from homelessness and mental illness. Continue reading →

Seattle Fire’s quick response knocks down blaze on Eastlake block home to Pazzo’s and the Zoo

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A block of Eastlake’s neighborhood core home to the Zoo Tavern and Pazzo’s won’t be quieted long after an overnight fire early Saturday morning.

Seattle Fire responded around 1:30 AM Saturday to the reported fire in the 1927-era building home to Pazzo’s and a set of upstair twin apartments andy quickly brought the blaze under control.

“The building was built in the early 1900s and its structure is of old growth fir, so if the fire department did not act so quickly as they did the building would have been engulfed in its entirety,” Pazzo’s owner Dave Mendoza Herrarte tells CHS about the incident. Continue reading →

911 | I-5 falls, Seattle cold weather deaths

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See something others should know about? Email CHS or call/txt/Signal (206) 399-5959. You can view recent CHS 911 coverage here. Hear sirens and wondering what’s going on? Check out Twitter reports from @jseattle or join and check in with neighbors in the CHS Facebook Group.

  • I-5 fall: Emergency crews treated a man who jumped or fell onto the Olive Way exit from I-5 Saturday morning. Seattle Fire reported responding to the incident along northbound freeway lanes just before 9 AM. A spokesperson says a 56-year-old male survived the fall and was in stable condition for transport to Harborview for further care. The I-5 overpasses below Capitol Hill are regularly the scenes for mental crisis calls and medical incidents including accidental falls from people trying to cross lanes of traffic or walk along narrow walls to access areas used for camping. Earlier this month, Seattle Fire responded to a fall onto northbound I-5 below Pike where it treated a 31-year-old man who suffered serious injuries in the incident. The man was taken to Harborview in critical condition in what was reported a mental health crisis call. We do not have an update on that incident.
    Resources to help those in need: National suicide-prevention hotline: 800-273-8255. Local Crisis Clinic: (206) 461-3222. If you need immediate assistance, call 911.
  • Cold weather deaths: The January cold snap that saw the lowest temperatures on Capitol Hill in 10 years was deadly. At least five people died from hypothermia in Seattle during the freezing January weekend, KUOW reports. They include this 63-year-old who died in a vehicle outside the Ballard Library. Another death was reported below I-5 on First Hill’s Seneca street where the King County Medical Examiner says Adam Elknation died outdoors of hypothermia and environmental exposure. Elknation was 37. The deaths occurred even as the city’s homelessness and shelter resources including emergency locations were mobilized to help give people warm places to stay. The health department says there were 31 emergency medical responses to cold-related incidents across the county on the January 12th weekend.
  • 14-year-old busted for car theft: SPD says it arrested a teen after tracking a stolen vehicle to Capitol Hill Sunday night:
    Shortly before 5:00 p.m., officers were notified that a stolen vehicle was tracking near the intersection of 15th Avenue South and South Lander Street. While officers were responding, dispatch advised there was a disturbance involving the vehicle, friends of the owner and multiple juvenile suspects. When officers arrived, they contacted the vehicle owner’s husband who found his wife’s stolen car and confronted the occupants. The husband told officers the driver attempted to flee the scene and crashed into another vehicle. After the crash, the husband fought with a passenger of the stolen vehicle. During the altercation, the driver of the stolen vehicle was able to drive away. Officers continued to track the stolen vehicle to a parking lot in the 300 block of East Olive Place.
    SPD says it caught up with the teen on a King County Metro bus. The juvenile was arrested for possession of a stolen motor vehicle and transported to 12th Ave’s Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center.
 

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Multiple dumpster fires set overnight on Capitol Hill

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Picture shared with CHS from a witness to one 15th Ave response

Seattle Fire responded to a series of fires set across Capitol Hill overnight.

According to emergency radio updates, crews handled multiple fires set to dumpsters and recycling receptacles including a large fire that broke out near a building in the 1600 block of 15th Ave early Tuesday morning. SFD also responded to another significant 15th Ave dumpster fire and smaller trash fires including one reported near 12th and Pine. Continue reading →

Overnight Capitol Hill power outage blamed on ‘equipment failure’ — UPDATE

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Loud booms and a reported 16th Ave E transformer fire preceded a power outage that disrupted service to around 5,000 customers across Capitol Hill Monday night.

Seattle City Light said service was restored for most customers by just before 12:30 AM on the icy night, blaming “equipment failure” for the outage that began about two hours earlier. Continue reading →

911 | Capitol Hill Station knife assault response, First Hill stabbing, overnight power outages

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A small tree temporarily blocked traffic on First Hill Tuesday morning

See something others should know about? Email CHS or call/txt/Signal (206) 399-5959. You can view recent CHS 911 coverage here. Hear sirens and wondering what’s going on? Check out Twitter reports from @jseattle or join and check in with neighbors in the CHS Facebook Group.

  • Assault response at Capitol Hill Station: Seattle Fire was called to the southbound platform at Capitol Hill Station Monday night to treat a man with injuries from a knife assault. The just before 10:30 PM incident reportedly took place at the UW station where the King County Sheriff took a suspect into custody. The injured man was transported to Harborview in stable condition.
  • First Hill stabbing: A man was stabbed in the neck and the arm in an altercation Tuesday morning near the Broadway Whole Foods. Seattle Police were called to the area of Spring at Boylston just after 5:30 AM for the reported assault involving a suspect known to the victim, according to East Precinct radio updates. Seattle Fire was called to the scene to treat the man for the knife injuries. He was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, SPD said. Police were searching for a suspect who fled the scene and was believed to be headed to an area “tiny home” housing facility.
  • Overnight wind: Wind gusts exceeding 50 MPH toppled trees and left thousands without power overnight into Tuesday morning in Seattle including a handful of downed trees and outages reported around Capitol Hill and the Central District. The most significant loss of power on the Hill was reported in the area between E Olive Way and Pine below Boylston where around 900 customers were reported to be without full power. Several trees were down with the most significant falls reported around 30th Ave above Lake Washington.
  • East Precinct car prowl bust: SPD reports a suspect was caught in the act trying to get inside a locked police vehicle parked outside the East Precinct at 12th and Pine last Thursday:
    At 1505 hours GIU detectives were leaving the East Precinct on E Pine St when they observed the suspect riding a lime scooter WB on Pine. The suspect jumped off the scooter and walked towards an unoccupied marked SPD patrol vehicle. The suspect looked around the vehicle and then walked to the driver side. The suspect then tried to open the driver side door however the PIU was locked and secure. Detectives alerted this over east air and uniformed officers contacted and arrested the suspect for theft of a motor vehicle with criminal attempt. The suspect was transported and booked into KCJ.
 

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Man stabbed in fight at Broadway Dick’s Drive-in

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A stabbing during a fight in front of the Broadway Dick’s Drive-in sent one man to the hospital early Thursday.

According to East Precinct radio updates, police responded to Broadway and Denny just after 2 AM where they found the man suffering from knife wounds to his chest. Police were looking for a man reportedly armed with a knife and a large stick who fled the scene.

According to the Seattle Police Department, the man who was stabbed was transported by Seattle Fire to Harborview in stable condition.

A search for the suspect including a K9 unit was unsuccessful. There were no reported arrests.

 

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First Hill building that became squat after 2022 fire burns again in massive 3-alarm blaze

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The 9th and Madison building burned — again — Monday monring (Image: Seattle Fire)

A First Hill building emptied of residents and popular lounge Vito’s and troubled by squatters and trespassers since a major fire two years ago, burned again New Year’s Day, nearly completely charring the abandoned structure and forcing the displacement of residents in a neighboring apartment building.

Seattle Fire says the overnight January 1st Madison Apartments building fire at 9th and Madison required a three-alarm response and left the structure too unstable to complete a search for any possible victims.

According to city records, the building owned by developer Southport Financial Services had been in violation of the city’s Vacant Building Monitoring program and subject to an emergency order to correct safety issues in October. Continue reading →

Fire in under-construction 13th Ave apartment development investigated

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Seattle Fire says nobody was found inside after a fire did heavy damage Saturday morning to the upper stories of an apartment building under construction near 13th and Mercer.

Heavy smoke was reported billowing from the fourth floor of the new development around 11 AM as firefighters arrived to find the blaze spreading into the building. As ladder crews searched for anybody possibly trapped inside the under-construction structure ,SFD says its engine crews stretched hose lines to the fourth floor and put water on the fire. SFD reports it took 35 minutes to extinguish the blaze. Continue reading →

911 | SPD reports two arrested during confrontation over Cal Anderson camp clearance

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  • Cal Anderson camp clearance arrests: Seattle Police made two arrests Thursday morning after a group reportedly would not leave an area of Cal Anderson where workers were clearing an encampment. According to the SPD report on the incident, police were confronted by a group of eleven as workers at the site were “conducting an Obstruction clean with the Seattle Parks Department” around 8:30 AM. “Officers made the decision to affect an arrest on one of the activists. Immediately the other activists jumped in to unarrest the subject,” the SPD brief reads. “This led to another arrest and a line was set up to keep the remainder of the activists back.” SPD says one of the arrested was identified and released while the other was booked into King County Jail. There were no reported injuries.
  • Madison Valley ripoff: Police say thieves used a stolen truck to rip the front doors off a Madison Valley business early Sunday morning doing $20,000 in damage and making off with stolen goods from inside the shop. According to SPD, police were called to the 3100 block E Madison business just before 5 AM after the store’s owner reported security video showing two suspects inside the store. Police arrived to find the store had been ripped open by the large asphalt construction truck reported stolen the week before in Issaquah but the suspects had already fled the scene. There were no arrests and no injuries.
  • Central District gunfire: SPD says it investigated gunfire early Sunday near 26th and Fir:
    At approximately 0023 hours, there were numerous reports of shots fired in the area of 26 Ave & E Fir St. Witnesses heard a vehicle speed off southbound afterward. Officers arrived and located 17 9mm FCC’s of two different brands (USA & CBC). There were no victims. Patrol processed the scene, spoke to witnesses and collected evidence.
 

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