UPDATE: 2 hurt in Myers Way encampment fire

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5:09 PM: Seattle Fire crews have been on scene this past hour at what was described as an encampment fire between their Joint Training Facility and tiny-house village Camp Second Chance, on the west side of Myers Way. They’ve found one person with burns and are sending them to Harborview Medical Center by private ambulance. The rest of the response is winding down. It’s on fenced property so we couldn’t get a closer view than the apparatus lights through the trees.

ADDED 6:39 AM TUESDAY: SFD spokesperson Kaila Lafferty tells WSB the burn victim was a man around 60 years old who was in stable condition when transported. She says a firefighter also suffered minor injuries but did not need hospital treatment.

waikikigirl January 8, 2024 (6:40 pm)

We were driving down Olson Pl around 12pm/1pm and I saw a lot of smoke coming from that direction and joked to my husband, what is the FD doing having a BBQ. Obviously the fire got out of control from the encampment people. Sorry the person was hurt but ANOTHER encampment on Myers…🫤

WSB January 8, 2024 (7:49 pm)

Camp Second Chance and habitat-restoration volunteers had complained for a while about people camping elsewhere on the Myers Way Parcels.
RM January 9, 2024 (9:32 am)

This did not actually start until about 3:30-4pm. We live ~900 ft up the hill behind this and watched this from our living room window. You might have seen smoke coming from the firefighter training facility at the time you mentioned that is also back in the area and people are constantly mistaking it for an encampment fire. Not defending the encampment because we had to live next to the one that got out of control the last few years on Myers, but if you see smoke on this road – 95% chance it is the training facility.

RM January 9, 2024 (9:34 am)

Big Dave January 9, 2024 (2:58 pm)

Greenbelts and bird sanctuaries don’t stand a chance against these urban scofflaws.

Jeff_P January 10, 2024 (8:30 am)

Because that is what we should care about more than housing people… I hate this callous attitude I see in these comments. These are humans. And one of them is my half brother…somewhere out there whom I’ve lost contact with years ago. I get so mad when I see comments treating homeless like dirt.
- Michelle January 18, 2024 (11:44 pm)
  
  Exactly it makes me sick like just because somewhere in their lifetime things didn’t exactly work out! People think they can talk bad about the homeless, I just figure what if I was in that position I would hate for someone to judge me just by looking at me, And a lot of the time people that are in that predicament have mental health issues and developmental issues! So people need to get off their fucking high horse because it can happen to anybody!
K January 19, 2024 (6:31 am)

Yes, agree with Michelle and Jeff, but also when do we suddenly have bird sanctuaries all over the West Seattle? There are no bird sanctuaries here. Birds live here, and they know there are people here when they set up camp. The birds that have trouble living human-adjacent aren’t the ones nesting in the greenbelts next to the freeway. The birds are fine. Stop using them as props for your political causes.

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