Updated April 24: According to the Seattle Fire Department, the cause of the fire was a cigarette that was not disposed of properly. Seattle Fire estimates the damage to be about $45,000 total for both the apartment where the fire started and the one below, which suffered water damage.
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The Seattle Fire Department responded quickly to put out a fire that started in the 6700 Roosevelt Apartments on NE 67th and Roosevelt Way NE (map) shortly after 5:00 p.m. on April 23. There were no injuries reported and it was not immediately known what caused the fire.
The fire seemed to have started in an apartment on the top floor of a unit along NE 67th Street, directly behind QFC, but did not appear to have spread to other units. Witnesses say that there were flames shooting out of the apartment when fire trucks arrived on the scene. Via Twitter, another witness said that an unattended barbeque grill on the deck was to blame.
Another angle of the fire in NE 67th st and Roosevelt.Firefighters axing away y the side of the building. twitter.com/itsajenism/sta…
— Jen (@itsajenism) April 24, 2012
Uh-oh. Looks like an apartment fire on Roosevelt and 67 in #Seattle fire trucks just arriving twitter.com/SarahSchacht/s…
— Sarah Schacht (@SarahSchacht) April 24, 2012
Apartment fire behind QFC on Roosevelt. twitter.com/jrotech/status…
— Jeff Rodenburg (@jrotech) April 24, 2012
EMTs, police, three fire tricks on scene for the #67NEFire in Roosevelt. Video attached. #Seattle #breakingnews yfrog.us/ja4uxnz
— Sarah Schacht (@SarahSchacht) April 24, 2012
Raw footage of the fire courtesy of KIRO7 TV Seattle (No audio):
