Firefighters in Seattle responded to a 3-alarm commercial warehouse fire in the city’s Industrial District early Wednesday morning, nearly 24 hours after another fire in the nearby Central District.
The blaze broke out just before 1 a.m. local time on the 4500 block of 7th Avenue S and reportedly involved two tractor trailers that were on fire and extended to the warehouse, Seattle Fire spokesman David Cuerpo said at a press conference near the scene.
Officials found multiple large metal and plastic barrels inside one of the trailers and surrounding the building, prompting them to put out the fire from a safe distance, he said. Cuerpo confirmed that the barrels inside the trailer and around the building were empty upon further inspection.
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Firefighters reported that the roof of the warehouse partially collapsed at 1:15 a.m., preventing personnel from entering the remnants of the building. Crews extinguished the fire around 3:22 a.m. and did not report any injuries. An investigation is still underway, Cuerpo said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
This comes after another fire broke out in another commercial building on Tuesday morning, approximately 20 minutes away on the 2700 block of E Madison St. in the Central District. The fire broke out at approximately 3:22 a.m. and crews were able to extinguish the fire at approximately 5:30 a.m.
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No injuries were reported, and Cuerpo confirmed that the cause of the fire was accidental in the same press conference on Wednesday morning.
