UPDATE: House fire in South Delridge at future redevelopment site (updated Tuesday)

(Added: WSB photos by Torin Record-Sand)

12:51 PM: Seattle Fire is at the scene of a house fire in the 9000 block of 17th SW. Two people are reported to have gotten out safely. Traffic is blocked in the area, on 16th too. Updates to come.

1:01 PM: An extra hazard in the area reported by SFD – downed power lines at the fire site. They also have just corrected the actual fire location’s address to 9000 block of 16th, though the originally logged address was in that block of 17th.

1:10 PM: The fire has been declared under control. SFD plans to start demobilizing some of the units.

1:22 PM: Though some units are being dismissed, dispatch has just been told that the 16th SW closure at that spot will last for a while, because of not only SFD but also City Light. That means bus detours too.

1:33 PM: The revised address actually checks to this future-development, former-fire site that’s adjacent, at 16th/Barton. (Added – as shown in this photo, with that site in foreground, today’s fire site in the background, looking northwest:)

1:42 PM: They’re reopening 16th now. The fire’s cause is under investigation.

TUESDAY MORNING: SFD says its investigation determined the fire was deliberately set. We’re following up further with SPD.

Joe K. March 10, 2025 (12:56 pm)

View from Broadway and Boren.

Andrew March 10, 2025 (1:26 pm)

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer house.

WS Res March 10, 2025 (6:16 pm)

Um, it seemed like people may have been living there, so that’s pretty cold.
- A March 10, 2025 (7:34 pm)
  
  There were/are a ton of people squatting there and publicly selling drugs 24/7.

Daniel Lake March 10, 2025 (1:34 pm)

Daniel Lake March 10, 2025 (1:36 pm)

Wow

Brian March 10, 2025 (2:33 pm)

I live on that alley. There has been consistent drug activity out of that house for the past two months. Its a shame cause a nice family used to live there and now its been taken over. At least the 2nd drug related house fire in the area in the last 3 years.

A March 10, 2025 (3:01 pm)

I live here too. It has been constant with the drugs and the drama. I have been hoping they’ll tear it down soon but it seems like there’s no hurry. I live very close and people are smoking drugs directly by my house and windows pretty regularly. I knew a fire was just a matter of time. The city inspects vacant buildings every month and sends the owner a letter about being not in compliance, but nothing is done.
Marianne March 10, 2025 (6:47 pm)

I came here to say the same. A really nice guy used to live there. He let me put a cat house on his covered patio for the feral cats that used to live on the property on the corner.