We heard sirens and smelled smoke at 11 p.m. last night, so I grabbed the camera and ran over to the 6700 block of Dibble Ave.
It was one of those nasty basement fires that was kicking out a ton of smoke, and it took firefighters a good half hour to knock it down. It doesn’t appear that anyone was injured, and it looked to me like nobody was home at the time.
Update: The Seattle Fire Department says a dog and a bunny perished in the fire, and five people are without a home. The Red Cross has been called to offer assistance to the family. They didn’t mention a cause of the fire, other to say it was “accidental” and started in the basement.
Some common causes of house fires are ashes that have not been fully extinguished, other sources of ignition, defective wiring or overloaded circuits or sockets, and as websites for essay writing explain natural events such as lightning. Items that may be near heat sources can ignite if they are too close or if their surface is oily.