Seattle fire, police investigate intentionally set fires
Seattle FD investigate intentionally set fires
Seattle's fire and police departments have recently seen an uptick in intentionally set fires in the Chinatown-International District and First Hill neighborhoods.
SEATTLE - Investigators with the Seattle fire and police departments are looking into a recent uptick in intentionally set fires in the Chinatown-International District and First Hill neighborhoods.
Officials said the fires happened in dumpster receptacles, garbage bins, stairwells of occupied buildings and vacant buildings.
On July 13, crews responded to a 2-alarm fire in a vacant building in the 1000 block of 9th Avenue.
Man rescued from vacant building fire in First Hill
A man was rescued Wednesday night from a fire at a vacant building in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood.
There were a series of fires between July 16 and 17:
- July 16: 900 block of S. Jackson St. – Debris fire set inside stairwell of building
- July 16: 900 block of S. Jackson St. – Second set fire in Stairwell of building
- July 16: 1200 block of S. Jackson St. – Debris fire set in underground parking garage
- July 16: 800 block of Madison St. – Debris fires inside derelict apartment building
- July 17: 1200 block of 15th Ave. E. – Multiple Garbage cans and dumpsters burned
Then on July 20, crews responded to a vacant building fire in the 1000 block of South King Street.
The Seattle Fire Department's fire investigators are working with the police department's arson and bomb squad.