Seattle Fire Department crews were dispatched Friday night to a report of a fire inside a residential building in the 4000 block of Stone Way N, with officials urging people to avoid the area while crews worked the scene.
The department shared the alert just after 4:15 p.m. local time, according to a post from Seattle Fire Dept. on its official account. The 4000 block sits along the corridor separating Fremont and Wallingford, a stretch of Stone Way N that has drawn significant multi-family residential construction in recent years and connects Lake Union to North Seattle, as Hoodline has previously reported.
Details on the exact address, the type of building involved, and whether anyone was displaced were not immediately available. It also remains unclear whether the structure was equipped with working smoke alarms or automatic fire sprinklers, both open questions as of Friday night.
A Busy Summer for Seattle’s Fire Crews
Friday’s dispatch comes on the heels of an unusually active stretch for residential fires across the region. In July, American Red Cross disaster caseworkers in King County assisted residents displaced by 12 residential fires in a single month, including eight within Seattle city limits, according to KING 5 News. The Red Cross typically steps in to provide displaced families with emergency shelter and financial relief in the immediate aftermath of a blaze…