Fires at homeless camps in Seattle are ending up being all too typical.
Just 2 weeks earlier, there was a significant fire at a homeless camp over a declared drug dealing disagreement.
Now there was another and there was a lot smoke that it might be seen all over the city.
KING 5 News reports:
Encampment fire in Seattle triggered by ‘careless burning,’ detectives state
An encampment fire triggered a huge plume of smoke to increase above downtown Seattle Monday afternoon.
The fire triggered in an encampment at Mercer Street near Fairview, near to an Interstate 5 on-ramp. Eastbound lanes of Mercer Street were obstructed while firemens dealt with the scene.
There were no injuries reported and firemens did not discover anybody in the encampment.
Seattle Fire Department detectives state the fire on Mercer Street was deliberately set. A 46- year-old male was apprehended for an examination of careless burning.
According to court files, the male implicated of setting the fire informed officers at the scene that he was cleaning his camping tent when he overturned a lit candle light. He informed cops he did not at first discover the candle light be overturned, however tried to snuff out the flames when his camping tent ignited.
The smoke plume from the fire might be seen from throughout the water on Alki Beach.
See the video listed below:
Seattle encampment, fire pic.twitter.com/MnwOwIUdiw
— Glenn E. Malone, EdD (@GEMalone) August 15, 2023
Something is seriously on fire around Eastlake in Seattle today pic.twitter.com/vzt50 fOQ7J
— Sergey Yun (@iskra_9) August 15, 2023
Fire near downtown Seattle #fire #seattle pic.twitter.com/2WbEDuJfA3
— Hayssam (@destinatepath) August 15, 2023
WHAT A SCENE OFF I-5: Man detained for negligent burning after fire emerges at Mercer Street encampment in Seattle
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— Steve McCarron KOMO (@SteveTVNews) August 15, 2023
For a progressive city that declares to appreciate the environment, Seattle sure has a great deal of meaningless and harmful fires.
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