What started as an aid call turned into an apartment fire when Kent firefighters responded to a request for help at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 9800 block of South 248th Street on the East Hill.
As the aid crew arrived they could smell smoke near the front door of the third story apartment, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.
When they got no answer to their knocks, the crew forced entry to find the entire apartment filled with smoke. Unable to see anyone, they called out into the apartment and got a reply. Moving quickly, the crew removed a woman from the apartment and into fresh air.
The woman rescued from the apartment was treated by firefighters and King County paramedics and transported to a local hospital.
The call was upgraded to a “commercial fire response” which added more emergency units to combat the fire. Additional crews discovered that the fire was limited to one room of the apartment and quickly extinguished it.
A check of other apartments showed that the smoke and flame damage had not spread to other units.
The cause of the fire and what led the woman to initially call 911 remains under investigation.
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