SPOKANE, Wash. — Two fires started by children 11 or younger have occurred in Spokane over the last two days, prompting safety warnings from the fire department.
A 10-year-old boy was playing with a lighter inside his family’s home on Allen Place when he accidentally lit a mattress on fire. Firefighters kept the fire contained to just the mattress, but there was smoke damage inside the house.
The fire happened 24 hours after an 11-year-old boy died in a house fire he allegedly started on Rowan Avenue, less than a mile away…