A rider was in serious condition after a car vs. scooter collision at 12th and John Thursday night.
Seattle Fire and Seattle Police were called to the intersection around 6:20 PM. SFD reports it treated a 25-year-old woman in serious condition and transported her to Harborview. Witnesses reported the rider suffered a leg injury and was bleeding from the head.
Police closed the intersection to traffic as they documented evidence and interviewed the driver. Continue reading
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Seattle Fire Department crews including its ENERGY 1 Energy Response Unit battled a major electrical fire Saturday afternoon across from a busy Capitol Hill Station.
SFD reported it responded to the electrical fire just after noon at Broadway and John behind Dick’s Drive-In.
Nearly an hour later, Seattle Fire reported its ENERGY 1 unit had extinguished the fire but not before substantial damage in the Seattle City Light vault.
SCL tells CHS the fire was caused by equipment failure and that full restoration of service from the systems utilizing was a complicated endeavor. “It was a complex restoration process that required several pieces of equipment to be repaired or replaced within the vault system,” a SCL spokesperson said.
Reports of internet outages in the area were being blamed on a power outage by service providers hours after the incident. Continue reading
The Seattle Fire Department says its investigation has determined Friday’s fire atop the Holiday Apartments “originated” in the solar power system atop the four-story building at 10th and John.
CHS reported here as firefighters struggled to extinguish the blaze and black smoke billowed above Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.
SFD did not say how the panels caught fire but photovoltaic systems can fail under extreme conditions or when there are other factors like faulty wiring or component defects.
Temperatures were in the high to mid-70s when the fire began. Continue reading
Thanks to reader Max H. for the pictures
The Seattle Fire Department took care of a rooftop blaze atop a Capitol Hill apartment building after solar panels caught fire Friday afternoon.
SFD was called to the Holiday Apartments at 10th and John next to Capitol Hill Station just after 2 PM to the reported blaze involving solar panels atop the four-story building. Continue reading
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The Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections has issued its Director’s Decision approving the plans for a six-story development to rise on the block currently home to the old 15th Ave E QFC.
Just over a week remains for any possible appeals to be filed against the decision.
The process milestone marks nearly two years of meetings and debate about the development including the East Design Review Board’s approval last fall of a requested zoning departure to allow the building an extra story in exchange for a layout that will preserve a prized European hornbeam tree along E Republican while also transitioning the project to better mesh with the adjacent lower structures to the north.
Any appeals must be filed with the Hearing Examiner by May 29th. Continue reading
Thanks to neighbor Teddy for the picture
A fire scorched the empty building formerly home to the Queen Sheba restaurant at Broadway and John Tuesday afternoon.
Seattle Fire was called around 2:45 PM to reports of flames on the outside of the building that spread to the interior. Continue reading
This video shows the rogue 4-way stop in motion
The Seattle Department of Transportation says even though it rushed to remove the rogue E John stop signs, it gets the message from the guerrilla act of street engineering.
“The installation of unauthorized stop signs indicates a desire from some in the community to have additional traffic control at this location,” a SDOT spokesperson tells CHS. “We’ll collect data to understand if stop signs might be a good option at this intersection.”
CHS reported last month on SDOT’s quick de-installation of the latest vigilante act of Capitol Hill streetscape improvement after somebody unofficially added official looking stop signs along E John creating 4-way stops at 13th and 14th Ave where pedestrians are often left waiting to make dangerous crossings. Continue reading
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The Seattle Department of Transportation’s $1.55 billion levy plan for 2025 includes Broadway safety improvements, an E Union “Revival,” and transit safety investments. But few of those projects will be more than planning this year.
The guerrilla Capitol Hill Department of Transportation?
It works faster — though its projects don’t tend to last.
Over the weekend, someone completed the latest rogue addition to the neighborhood’s streetscape, secretly installing stop signs on the busy intersections along E John above 12th Ave where pedestrians hoping to cross are often left waiting — or sprinting — to get to the other side. Continue reading
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The development project to create a new Safeway grocery store and mixed-use apartment complex at the corner of 15th and John has overcome its final regulatory hurdle.
The City of Seattle issued a Master Use Permit for the long-planned project on Halloween day, records show.
The issuance is the final major step in the city’s development process for a project from developer Greystar and the Weber Thompson development team to create two new five-story buildings including a new grocery, around 330 market rate apartment units, some new, smaller retail spaces, and an underground parking lot for more than 300 cars on the Safeway property at 15th and John.
The development has been in the works for years. CHS first broke the news on the plans in 2019. Plans had called for a start of construction in 2024 and a possible 2026 opening of the project. Continue reading
Two people were reported stabbed in an altercation early Friday morning amid remaining Capitol Hill Halloween nightlife crowds.
Seattle Police were called to E John at Bellevue just north of E Olive Way around 2:25 AM to a report of a man stabbed in the neck and upper body in a fight outside a nearby bar.
As officers arrived and called Seattle Fire to the scene to assist the injured man, police were called to a second victim reported stabbed in the neck and in need of assistance outside E Olive Way bar Revolver.
Seattle Fire reports it transported a 36-year-old man in stable condition to Harborview and a 30-year-old man was taken to the hospital by a private ambulance from outside the E Olive Way bar.
Seattle Police reported the second victim was highly intoxicated and uncooperative with police and medics.
Police were looking for a suspect described only as a heavyset black male wearing all black.
There were no reported arrests.
