{"id":61465,"date":"2023-01-06T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/homeless-activity-reportedly-starts-two-kent-vacant-home-fires\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T23:48:00","slug":"homeless-activity-reportedly-starts-two-kent-vacant-home-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/homeless-activity-reportedly-starts-two-kent-vacant-home-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless activity reportedly starts two Kent vacant home fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two vacant homes caught fire Friday morning, Jan. 6 in separate incidents in Kent with each reportedly caused by homeless who used the houses.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured in either fire, said Pat Pawlak, spokesperson for Kent-based Puget Sound Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded at about 3:42 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/MffPSjo17kMbadi79\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener\">to a house fire in the 21500 block of 108th Avenue <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/MffPSjo17kMbadi79\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener\">SE<\/a> on the East Hill. Firefighters saw flames coming from the windows of the single-story house. They extinguished the fire in about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a vacant house and it appears (the cause) may have been related to transient or homeless activity,&rdquo; Pawlak said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>Renton Regional Fire Authority assisted on the call.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a second house fire at about 8:49 a.m.<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/thQfNVNdFKVfQQZ68\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\"> in the 500 block of Bridges Avenue South, just southeast of downtown.<\/a> It took about an hour to put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a vacant house and (the cause) is under investigation but there were reports of homeless going in and out of there,&rdquo; Pawlak said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday morning, Jan. 6 on the East Hill and near downtown <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61465","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\/61465"}],"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=61465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61465"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}