Update: 1 hurt in West Seattle house fire on 12th SW

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(Photo added 10:40 am)
10:30 AM: On our way to check out the house-fire call in the 8100 block of 12th SW (map) – scanner reports flames seen by firefighters who’ve arrived in the past few minutes. We can see the smoke, while en route, from about a mile away.

10:36 AM UPDATE: Via scanner, crews report the fire is “knocked down” – they’re ventilating and searching the house.

10:44 AM UPDATE: As you can see in our photo added a few minutes ago, the ventilation work is happening on the roof. Firefighters report everyone got out OK. No injuries reported. We don’t have information on the circumstances/cause yet. Police are now being sent to the scene to help with traffic control along this section of 12th SW.

11:03 AM UPDATE: New information from the incident commander – two people who were in the house when the fire started are being checked by medics, one for a possible burn injury. The fire damaged a structure on the side of the house as well as the house itself:

11:35 AM UPDATE: Added a few more photos. According to SFD, one person did indeed suffer a facial burn. No word yet on the fire’s cause, but we’ll keep checking back.

12:35 PM UPDATE: SFD has announced the cause as “food on the stove.”

MB December 28, 2010 (10:58 am)

Thanks! I’m half a block south and had no idea anything was up until the channel 4 chopper was just hovering over my house. Hope everyone is ok. As usual, the wsb rocks!

WSB December 28, 2010 (11:06 am)

You’ll probably see at least one TV chopper again at noon, when 5 and 7 do news. The TV stations all happened to have crews in West Seattle anyway for the 47th SW mudslide/cleanup, so everyone just rolled over to the fire (reports WSB co-publisher Patrick, who also has been covering both scenes this am).

Grandma December 28, 2010 (11:01 am)

I have a birds eye view of the house (just northeast). I saw some smoke drifting and figured it was a fire in a fireplace. As it thickened I look to the source and the smoke had turned black. Started rounding up the critters because it was blowing towards my house. Then just like that flames started shooting up into the sky. Very scary that something could happen that quickly. At that point the fire department was not yet here.

I would guess the flames were shooting up 30 feet at least (measured by the tree between the fire and my house). It seemed to take forever to get it under control.

The cat was freaked out (could not get him) so loaded Gigi into the car and backed out to the end of my driveway on 11th to wait it out.

Frank December 28, 2010 (3:06 pm)

I live next door. Most of the pictures were taken in my driveway. We hear that two of our neighbors actually pulled them out of the burning house. The older couple are safe and staying with family.

Again, the WSB is the only source for information!

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