Several families have been displaced after an apartment fire in Federal Way on June 20.<\/p>\n
At about 12:05 a.m. Sunday, South King Fire crews responded to a fire at the Mountain Sun Apartments (1747 S. 305th Place) in Federal Way.<\/p>\n
Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority and King County Medic One also responded to the fire.<\/p>\n
An entire seven-unit apartment building was engulfed in flames, resulting in extensive damage and a loss estimate of about $1.25 million, according to South King Fire and Rescue Assistant Fire Chief Gordon Goodsell.<\/p>\n
In total, 24 adults and five children were displaced. One man was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Goodsell said.<\/p>\n
Red Cross Northwest is assisting six families affected by the fire so far, according to a tweet from the <\/a>agency<\/a>. The agency is expecting the number of individuals needing help to increase in the coming days.<\/p>\n The fire originated inside the building, but the cause has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n None of the units had working smoke alarms, Goodsell said.<\/p>\n Crews were called back to the scene later in the day due to a small amount of smoke remaining from a smoldering area of the building, Goodsell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" None of the building’s units had working smoke alarms, fire official says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":50301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-50300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50300"}],"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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50300"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}