Two more porta-potty fires in north West Seattle

Two more porta-potty fires in West Seattle last night bring the total to at least four in just over three weeks, all in north West Seattle. Our photo above shows the aftermath of one at Admiral Way and SW Waite. We got a tip about it last night but SFD had closed out their response and left before we arrived, so we followed up on it today, and found out it was one of two in the span of an hour. SFD spokesperson Kaila Lafferty says the first fire last night was in the 3600 block of 44th SW around 6 pm, less than an hour before the one at Admiral and Waite, and that investigators ruled the cause of both as “undetermined.” That’s also what SFD concluded about these two we noted three weeks ago, at 51st/Dakota and along an alley in the 3400 block of California SW.

Save the Porta-Poopers March 4, 2024 (5:52 pm)

Now that the Wa State Legislature just passed Initiative 2113 to restore police chases for ALL crimes, perhaps we’ll finally start to see a reduction of destruction crimes across the board. The new law goes into effect in 90 days.

Reason&sense March 6, 2024 (12:31 pm)

Police chases for minor crimes can end up in death of pedestrians/drivers if hit by the car fleeing. Statitisically.
- Akaf March 8, 2024 (1:32 am)
  
  Source? More police chase are safe than ends in death. Statistically.
  - heartless March 8, 2024 (7:21 am)
    
    Googled: statistics police chases
    Got this:
    
    “According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), fatal crashes involving police pursuits kill more than one person every day; 525 people were killed in 2021, and 545 were killed in 2020.”
    Followed by, in order:
    
    New report recommends limiting police pursuits to violent …
    
    AP News https://apnews.com › article › police-vehicle-chase-purs…Sep 19, 2023 — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aiming to curb the hundreds of deaths caused by police chases in the U.S. each year, a new report calls for police not …
    
    Police chases kill thousands
    
    USA Today https://www.usatoday.com › pages › high-speed-chasesPolice chases kill thousands. Nearly every day, someone is killed during a high-speed chase between police and a suspect. Almost half of the 11,500 people …
    
    Data shows fewer deaths after restrictions on police pursuits
    
    Real Change https://www.realchangenews.org › news › 2022/11/23Nov 23, 2022 — Preliminary data indicates that vehicular deaths caused by police pursuits in Washington state declined by more than 80 percent since a 2021 …

CarDriver March 4, 2024 (6:53 pm)

Wonder if it’s the same kids that broke into Il Nido last night?

WSB March 4, 2024 (6:54 pm)

That situation was not resolved, for lack of a better term, by the time these fires happened.

KT March 4, 2024 (7:10 pm)

Two portapotties were burnt at Hicklen Lake Park in White Center last week.

Frog March 4, 2024 (9:21 pm)

I wonder if it’s trending on tiktok.

1994 March 4, 2024 (9:42 pm)

Sounds like a serial porta-potty arsonist is making the rounds….I hope they are caught in the act soon before someone gets injured or other property damaged.