West Seattle

This morning, just before 1AM, a loft/townhome development on California and Genesee burned to the ground.

Thirteen fire engines and ladder trucks were on scene, along with 70 fire department personnel. Two firefighters were taken to the hospital, one for a dislocated shoulder and the other for dehydration.

Earlier today, the West Seattle Blog broke news that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the fire, but it turns out their presence isn’t anything out of the ordinary.

According to Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick, the SFD regularly partners with the ATF for large fires and although the cause of this morning’s fire is under investigation, SFD has “no reason to think there’s anything criminal about it.”

Fitzpatrick says the investigation “may go a couple days because there’s so much debris to dig through.”