{"id":9158,"date":"2015-06-09T19:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T02:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/stove-top-fire-displaces-family-of-3-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:50:28","slug":"stove-top-fire-displaces-family-of-3-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stove-top-fire-displaces-family-of-3-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Stove top fire displaces family of 3 in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A stove top fire that rapidly spread to the kitchen cabinets and into the wall displaced a family of three from their Kent Valley apartment Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The fire at the apartment in the 700 block of State Street was reported at 3:24 p.m., dispatching Kent Fire Department RFA emergency units to the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Two Kent Police officers arrived first and began evacuating and searching the building for residents needing assistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The first-arriving fire department unit reported smoke from the windows, eaves and in the hallway on the second floor and immediately upgraded the call to a “working fire,” bringing additional help from Valley Regional Fire Authority (Auburn), South King County Fire and Rescue and Tukwila Fire Department to the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Firefighters were able to quickly knock down the fire and began searching for hidden fire in the walls and ceilings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The police officers that helped evacuate the building suffered smoke inhalation and were treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n One resident of the apartment building suffered smoke inhalation and was treated at the scene and then transported to a local hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ten firefighters suffered dehydration due to the summer-like heat and were also treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The displaced family is receiving housing and other assistance from the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Kent Fire Investigator has ruled the stove top fire as accidental and has assessed the damage at approximately $75,000.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A stove top fire that rapidly spread to the kitchen cabinets and into the wall displaced a family of three from their Kent Valley apartment Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158"}],"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=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}