Crews fought, contained and extinguished a house fire on Kent’s East Hill early Thursday morning, the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority reported.<\/p>\n
The fire was out with within 40 minutes after the first crew arrived. There was no one at home at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n
Two firefighters, who fell through a hole in the floor into the basement and got tangled in wiring, were extricated without injury, Puget Sound Fire said.<\/p>\n
There were no injuries.<\/p>\n
Units were dispatched on a 2:52 a.m. call of a house fire in the area of 116th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 234th <\/a>Place<\/a>. As firefighters were en route, neighbors also reported that the house was fully engulfed in flames in the 11600 block of Southeast 235th <\/a>Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n First-arriving crew confirmed the two-story house had a basement on the back side and initiated an exterior attack with a large hose line. The call was upgraded to a working fire to obtain additional resources. Once the fire had been knocked down, crews started an interior attack.<\/p>\n Approximately 15 minutes into the fire attack, while a crew was performing a search of the upper floor, two firefighters fell through a hole in the floor into the basement and became tangled in a mass of wiring. An additional crew was deployed. Within five minutes, the firefighters were disentangled and able to exit the house from the lower floor without injuries.<\/p>\n “While this created some tense moments, this type of scenario is something personnel train for,” said Capt. Joe Root, Puget Sound RFA spokesman, in a news release.<\/p>\n All told, the response included six units from Puget Sound Fire as well as assistance from the Renton Regional Fire Authority, King County Medic One and Zone 3 Rehab.<\/p>\n The homeowner was still being identified.<\/p>\n The cause of the fire is under investigation. A crew remained on scene until daylight to help the investigator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two firefighters freed after being tangled in wiring in the basement; no one hurt <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45073","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\/45073"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45073"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}