{"id":35754,"date":"2018-07-13T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fire-wrecks-kent-apartment-complex-unit\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T18:50:35","slug":"fire-wrecks-kent-apartment-complex-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fire-wrecks-kent-apartment-complex-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire wrecks Kent apartment complex unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefighters responded to an apartment complex fire Thursday evening in Kent – the third structure fire of the day.<\/p>\n

Fire broke out at about 6:35 p.m. in the 700 block of Fifth Avenue South<\/a>, according to a Puget Sound Fire media release. Investigators ruled the fire was accidental and caused by cooking.<\/p>\n

Firefighters from the closest fire station could see a column of smoke as they left their station and upgraded the fire status to include additional units.<\/p>\n

When they arrived at the single-story apartment complex, they found heavy smoke and fire coming from one of the units. While one crew aggressively attacked the fire, another went to the flat roof to cut a hole and extinguish the fire that had spread into the attic space.<\/p>\n

Although only one apartment suffered fire damage, two others were affected by smoke.<\/p>\n

One child was treated for possible smoke inhalation and sent to a local hospital as a precaution. There were no other injuries. Red Cross assisted the two adults and three children displaced by the fire.<\/p>\n

Units from Valley RFA and South King Fire and Rescue assisted Puget Sound Fire. Medic One and Zone 3 rehab units were also involved. <\/p>\n

At approximately 4 a.m. Thursday, Puget Sound firefighters responded to a restaurant fire in the 1600 block of West Meeker Street. At 4:30 p.m., many of the same crews responded to a house fire in the 25300 block of 30th Avenue South on the West Hill. The cause of those fires remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five people displaced in Kent Valley <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":35755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-35754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35754"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35754"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}