May 15—After 6 years on the job and more than 100 fire investigations, Henny the Seattle Fire Department “Arson Dog” has retired. Henny fire joined the Seattle Fire Department in 2006 as the very first accelerant detection dog or “Arson Dog”. Henny and her handler Captain Stephen Baer graduated from the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms [...]

May 15—Former Seattle Fire Station 37 has been sold to a West Seattle couple. The historic station was sold for $613,000 after a minimum bid price was set at $250,000. The City Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS) is in charge of the sale. The city netted more than $575,000 which will help replenish [...]

May 14-Seattle Firefighters extinguished an electrical fire outside a South Seattle restaurant this morning. At 7:56 a.m., Engine Company 28 arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the side of a 1-story restaurant located in the 6000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Firefighters used Dry Chemical and CO2 extinguishers to put [...]

May 12—Seattle Firefighters rescued a 25-year-old man off of an abandoned fuel tank at Gas Work Park this morning. At 2 a.m., firefighters were called to a fenced-off area of the park that is surrounded by razor wire. A male had made his way pass the “No Trespassing” signs and climbed up a staircase to [...]

May 12—Seattle Fire Investigators have determined a Friday night fire at a West Seattle auto body shop was an electrical fire. According to investigators, a short in a 220 volt socket ignited the auto body shop causing $20,000 damage to the structure and $10,000 damage to the contents. At 8:11 p.m., the Fire Alarm Center [...]

The Seattle Fire Department partnered with Seattle City Light to produce a Public Service Announcement regarding the dangers of power theft. Seattle Firefighter Leo Castaneda appeared in the video at his South Park Fire Station 26. Firefighter Castaneda volunteered to speak about tampering with electric meters and the dangers it poses. Tampering with a power [...]

May 8- At 2:54 p.m. Seattle Firefighters responded to a pizza place at 600 Summit Avenue East to reports of a worker caught in the dough making machine. A man in his 30’s had caught his hand inside the machine. It took about 15 minutes for firefighters to disassemble the pizza making machine in order [...]

KIDS CAN HAVE A BURNING CURIOSITY Theme for Arson Awareness Week 2012 is Preventing Youth Firesetting Most children have a curiosity when it comes to fire. The initial curiosity can expand to more destructive and potentially deadly outcomes when children experiment with fire. Parents and caregivers can do a lot to prevent a child or [...]

May 8—An overheated extension cord is to blame for a two-alarm industrial building fire that burned into the morning hours in the SODO area of Seattle according to SFD Investigators. This morning, Seattle Fire Investigators returned to the scene and determined the accidental fire began in a band practice room that was located between buildings [...]

May 7—Seattle Firefighters responded to reports of an explosion at a gas production facility in the 7700 block of East Marginal Way South at 1:28 p.m. this afternoon. A half-dozen workers safely evacuated from the facility by the time the first engine company arrived on scene. The small explosion occurred in a manufacturing building that [...]