News Seattle Police, SFD, ATF Investigating Arson At Former Women’s Clinic
posted by on June 13 at 14:52 PM
The Seattle Fire Department, Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating a small fire that was set earlier this week at an abandoned womens’s clinic in the Central District.
The fire department was called to the former site of the Aradia Women’s Center—which closed in January 2007—on 13th and Spring at about 10:30pm Wednesday night after someone set a fire near the building’s exterior doors. According the SFD spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick, the fire “burned a little bit…of the door, but didn’t get in [to the building].”
The fire only did $2,000 in damage, but SFD contacted Seattle Police, who brought in the ATF to assess the case.
Fitzpatrick says there’s no indication whether the building was targeted because it housed as clinic, or whether the incident is related to a number of other recent arson fires set in South Seattle.
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First, the clinic is on First Hill not in the CD. Second, since the clinic has been closed it has been a haven for the homeless with massive amounts of trash piled around. Im surprised it hasn't self-combusted yet. I highly doubt there was any political motivation
Au contraire, tictoc. South of Madison, on 13th, is TOTALLY the CD. I asked around and there was consensus.
Spring St. being one block north of Madison, we should all then be able to agree that this is indeed First Hill.
@2 you're dead on with the sheer flammability factor of that building in recent past. And dear sweet Jeebus, was that the biggest fire dept response ever for a flaming door?
GrantG -- Next time when you call, tell the 911 operators exactly what's on fire, where the fire is, how hard it is to get there, and what else is at risk.
With all of this information, dispatchers should send exactly the right amount of people for the response.
I'd call that area First Hill.
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