A two-alarm apartment fire in Kent displaced eight families and approximately 20 people.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded at about 4:36 p.m. Sunday, May 29 to a fire at the Alvista 240 Apartments, in the 11000 block of SE 240th <\/a>St<\/a>., according to Puget Sound Fire spokesperson Pat Pawlak.<\/p>\n Firefighters rescued one resident from his third floor balcony. Firefighters extinguished the fire in 45 minutes.<\/p>\n Two units sustained fire damage, at least two units sustained water damage and at least two units sustained smoke damage, Pawlak said. The electrical power was disconnected from six units.<\/p>\n “The cause of the fire was determined to be accidental,” Pawlak said. “No specific cause was given.”<\/p>\n Red Cross assisted the families with immediate needs.<\/p>\n Renton Regional Fire Authority, Valley Regional Fire Authority, King County Medic One and Zone 3 Cadets assisted on the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Red Cross assists nearly 20 people at Alvista 240 Apartments after Sunday fire <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":57619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57618","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\/57618"}],"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=57618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57618"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}