DATE OF INCIDENT: 12/2/2010
INCIDENT TYPE: Structure Fire
INCIDENT ADDRESS: 2015 W. Mansfield
CITY: Spokane,
STATE: WA
ZIP: 99205
NARRATIVE: The Spokane City Fire Dept. dispatched fire fighting crews and their fire apparatus to 2015 W. Mansfield at 12:11 hrs. on Thursday, Dec. 2nd, 2010, on a reported structure fire. The first arriving fire companies, E4 and L4 from the Browne's Addition neighborhood Fire Station, reported smoke showing out of the gable vents at the front and the rear of the house. They quickly donned their Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and immediately entered the building with a charged hose lead to try and locate the source of the increasing smoke. While those two fire companies went about their work inside the structure other arriving fire crews were given additional assignments that included: securing a water supply, interior search and rescue, roof ventilation, opening walls and ceilings on the second floor, shutting down the electric and gas utilities, covering furniture on both floors with protective tarps, and deploying the Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) for fire fighter safety. The source of the smoke was found to be a smoldering type fire which had been burning undetected in the attic space below the roof. The fire appeared to have been burning for quite a while in the attic since some of the structural members in the attic and under the roof had been burned half way through. In order to get at this stubborn fire the fire fighters had to cut open the ceiling and the walls of the apartment on the second floor and they had to remove much of the still smoldering insulation in the attic and dump it outside of the building. There were no reports of any injuries to the tenant of the second floor apartment or to any of the fire fighters at the scene. The tenant of the first floor apartment was away at work when the fire occurred. Red Cross was requested to the scene to assist the tenant on the first floor and her three young children with temporary lodging. The two apartments will not be able to be occupied until substantial structural and electrical repairs can be made to the upper unit. Fire damage at this building was confined to the attic space and some of the ceilings and walls of the second floor apartment. Smoke damage was limited to the top floor apartment. The first floor apartment was not damaged. Thirty one fire fighters were delivered to this fire scene by four engines, two senior ladder trucks, one pumper ladder, one heavy rescue apparatus, and three Command Vehicles. The cause of this fire is being investigated by members of the Spokane Fire Dept.'s Special Investigation Unit (SI
PROBABLE CAUSE: Currently under investigation by members of the Special Investigation Unit of the Spokane City Fire Dept.
DAMAGE EXTENT: Considerable fire damage to the second floor apartment and the attic as well as the underside of the roof.
DOLLAR LOSS: 20,000
FIREFIGHTER RESPONSE: 31
MUTUAL AID: None Given
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