INCIDENT DESCRIPTION
At 8:54 am on March 9, 2025, Engine 13 of the Seattle Fire Department was dispatched to a reported rubbish fire in the area of 4th Avenue S and S Spokane Street in SoDo, the industrial heart of the city south of downtown. Engine 13 found an encampment fire in a row of brush near a BNSF siding. Engine 13 requested a few additional units to help put out the fire. The incident lasted 49 minutes.
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VIDEO TIMELINE
0:00 – Smoke column
0:18 – E13 responding
0:36 – E13 arriving
0:43 – R1 responding
1:02 – R1 arriving
1:11 – R1 repositioning, arriving
1:55 – 1x SPD arriving for traffic control
2:09 – SDOT takes notice
2:24 – On scene footage
2:49 – Smoke visible
3:00 – DEP1 responding, arriving
3:22 – SDOT returns cameras to preset
3:35 – B5 arriving
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UNITS
Units dispatched were: B5, E10, E13*, E36, & R1
Units seen in this video were: B5, DEP1, E13, & R1
*In a reserve apparatus
SFD A Shift
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MY NOTES
Some nice on scene footage for this one; SDOT operator did a decent job! Later that same day, Engine 13 was first due to a major vehicle fire involving four Teslas. You can find that traffic camera footage, from the same cameras, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVDIVIaNSA
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CREDITS & NEWS LINKS
This channel and its content is inspired HEAVILY by LucasFirebuffing’s channel, “SeattleTrafficCams.” I highly recommend you check him out, his videos are very well made: @/SeattleTrafficCams
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