6 Replies to "Update: Fire call on 42nd not a fire"

• miws April 10, 2008 (8:42 am)

  Glad to find out it was nothing after all.

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  The call sure made it sound significant!

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  Mike

• JanS April 10, 2008 (9:13 am)

  wow…the firepower (umm…maybe not the right word, huh) from the Admiral District was impressive. Actually, glad it was a false alarm…I don’t wish fire on anyone..

• Sue April 10, 2008 (11:36 am)

  I was wondering what was going on. While waiting for the bus on Fauntleroy this morning at 8:10 we saw several emergency vehicles driving southbound with sirens blaring. Then a few minutes later one came back northbound (with no lights and sirens) and I thought that was curious.

• Katie April 10, 2008 (6:36 pm)

  I was over at the home this afternoon and the owner was very upset with the way in which the West Seattle Blog went about trying to cover the story. Very similar to the way in which other readers felt the WSB over stepped its bounds by posting the video of the woman sobbing after hitting a pedestrian, the owner was offended by how pushy the person was. She has two small children, was home alone, and worried about her home. The last thing she needed was to be bothered by a reporter with all the commotion going on; it was an inappropriate time. Although I understand you’re trying to break stories quickly, perhaps the WSB needs to back off a bit and allow people some privacy. Not everything is newsworthy nor does everything have to be covered while it is still happening.

• JimmyG April 10, 2008 (6:58 pm)

  Glad to see WSB has changed the location of occurrence in this post to merely the hundred block of where it happened.
  Yet the map I can click on still gives the exact house address, can that be modified?

• WSB April 10, 2008 (10:10 pm)

  Katie, I did not have the time to get into an extensive discussion in the forum. I am just back from a three and a half hour land use meeting. However I need to correct this erroneous contention. Patrick went down the hill to check out the huge fire call. I am handing the keyboard over to him to explain his extremely brief interaction with the person who told him what happened:

  First – regarding the flashing of the badge, which is in fact our media credentials issued by the Seattle Police Department – I was not trying to show it to the woman who owned the home. What I was trying to do was get the attention of Fire Fighter Franks who was in charge of the scene. Franks turned quickly and I was unable to make contact with her. But I did ask a couple of questions of the home owner and then left.

  I took no photos nor did I shoot any video. I thanked her for the information she gave me and left.

  When going to such things my first priority is to seek out the which public agency is in charge and who the commander might be and take information only from them. The so-called flashing of the badge is a necessary step to obtain information so that those in charge understand that I am not a curious bystander.

  As Mike points out – it sounded serious, it was not and that’s all I gave back when I returned.

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