MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 29, 2021
Fire crews at the scene of the residence Saturday. Photo by Brent Tugby
Five people were displaced following a kitchen fire in a two-story duplex located near Olympic View Drive in Edmonds Saturday. No one was injured.
South County Fire spokesperson Leslie Hynes said firefighters were called around 5:40 p.m. to the residence, located in the 18500 block of 73rd Avenue West just off Olympic View Drive.
The fire caused extensive damage to the first floor of one duplex, and both units suffered smoke damage, leaving them uninhabitable, Hynes said.
The Red Cross is assisting those who were displaced. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
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Linda Nelson, second from right, accepts her father-in-law’s shadow box from Lynnwood firefighter Craig O’Neill (far left), Captain Todd Wigal (middle) and Kim Sharpe (far right). (Photo courtesy South County Fire)
Edmonds resident Kim Sharpe is a Navy veteran, and also works with South County Fire as its veterans outreach coordinator. “So it was just by coincidence (and) good luck,” he said, that the woman who showed up recently at Lynnwood Fire Station 15 with a shadow box of unknown origins happened to encounter him.
Fire station employees noticed she was holding a wooden display, and Sharpe said he recognized even from across the parking lot that the triangular-shaped shadow box was likely military-related because he has a similar one for his father, who had served in the Marines during World War II. Sharpe said he’s glad to have his dad’s memorabilia and medals earned while in the military and “realized another f
Man and 7-year-old daughter killed in Snohomish County house fire KING 5 Staff
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A man and his seven-year-old daughter died in a house fire in Snohomish County on Thursday morning.
Crews were called to the fire in the 2900 block of York Road at about 3:30 a.m., according to South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue spokesperson Leslie Hynes.
The home was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived, and the fire was very fast-moving, according to Hynes.
Crews couldn’t get inside the home and had to fight the fire defensively.
The man and his daughter were found once the fire was put out.
Child, father die in house fire near Mukilteo
April 15, 2021
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MUKILTEO, Wash. (AP) A 7-year-old child and her father died in a house fire near Mukilteo, authorities said.
South County Fire crews responded around 3:30 a.m. Thursday to a fire in a one-story home, The Daily Herald reported.
South County Fire spokesperson Leslie Hynes said when firefighters arrived, the house was engulfed in flames. She said it was too dangerous for crews to access most of the home, and they initially didn’t know if anyone was inside.
The fire department said later Thursday that after knocking down the fire, they found a girl and her 42-year-old father. They died at the scene.
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