A busy two days continued for Kent firefighters as they extinguished a house fire Friday afternoon on the West Hill, the fourth structure fire in two days.<\/p>\n
Fire damaged a house at about 1:54 p.m. in the 25300 block of 31st Avenue <\/a>South<\/a>, according to a Puget Sound Fire media release. Flames burned an exterior wall of the garage and spread into the house.<\/p>\n Both occupants were able to get out safely. Red Cross assisted them.<\/p>\n Firefighters from Puget Sound Fire and South King Fire and Rescue responded and kept the damage to a minimum, though a small amount of smoke got into the living space.<\/p>\n The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n A Zone 3 rehab unit and Medic One also responded to the incident. The Flood Guys assisted the family, free of charge, by boarding up the damaged portions of the house.<\/p>\n A house fire broke out Thursday in the 25300 block of 30th Avenue South, just one street over from Friday’s fire. Firefighters also responded to a restaurant fire on West Meeker Street and an apartment fire on Fifth Avenue South on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Second fire in two days in neighborhood <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":35777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-35776","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\/35776"}],"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=35776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=35776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}