A house fire in the Woodinville area killed at least one person early Monday morning, with firefighters finding the victim during a primary search of the burning home and pulling them outside. A second resident managed to escape through a window before crews arrived, and fire officials have not said whether anyone else was inside.
Firefighters responded to a working house fire along Little Bear Creek Road, near Ruby Bridges Elementary, at around 4:30 a.m. Monday, according to KIRO 7 News Seattle. Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue crews reported being at the scene around 4:34 a.m., per a separate account from MyNorthwest.
Trapped Resident Found During Search
Responding firefighters were notified that at least one person was trapped inside the home as they arrived. During a primary search, crews located the victim and brought them outside, and the fire department later confirmed the person had died, the station's report states.
One other person was able to get out of the house through a window before firefighters arrived, according to Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue. Officials have not said whether anyone else was inside the home at the time of the fire, per the same account from MyNorthwest.
Second Fatal Fire In the Area This Year
Monday's blaze is not the only deadly fire to hit the Woodinville area recently. A mobile home fire in Woodinville left two people dead on a Wednesday evening, according to FOX 13 Seattle, which reported that crews arriving at the 9000 block of 212th Street Southeast found a fifth-wheel trailer fully engulfed in flames.
Fires have struck the Little Bear Creek Road corridor before. Back on Jan. 16, 2019, a mobile home fire broke out in a park on the 20400 block of the same road, according to The Daily Herald. In that earlier incident, firefighters doused the flames and kept them from spreading to a nearby home with help from Woodinville and Bothell fire departments, and nobody was found inside the damaged mobile home, though one firefighter suffered minor injuries treated at the scene.
KIRO 7 News Seattle has said it plans to send a crew to the scene of Monday's fire and update its reporting as new developments emerge.
