24300 block of 129th Avenue Southeast<\/a> in Kent has been ruled accidental after an extension cord overheated and ignited an SUV in the driveway of a two-story house.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe call was initially dispatched as a vehicle fire, but was upgraded to a residential fire after multiple calls to 911 reported that the flames had spread to the attached garage and shake roof, according to a Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority media release. Everyone in the home was able to escape safely and there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire in the garage and vehicle, keeping it from spreading to the rest of the house.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Red Cross assisted the family with housing.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A fire at about 9 p.m. Thursday in the 24300 block of 129th Avenue Southeast in Kent has been ruled accidental after an extension cord overheated and ignited an SUV in the driveway of a two-story house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":17879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}