You may have heard the many sirens or seen the many Seattle Fire Department vehicles (14 in all) responding to a house fire at Corliss Ave. just south of N. 45th St. this evening. The big SFD response was for a super-smoky fireplace that got more attention than the duplex tenants expected.
Here’s what happened: The downstairs tenants started their first blaze in their fireplace — an apparatus they’ve since discovered wasn’t fire-ready — and the upstairs tenants noticed smoke. The residents all got out of the building and called the fire department. When SFD arrived, they cut holes through the roof to let the smoke out of the attic.
