Fire Department News Releases for April 2020

April 30

Wednesday Afternoon Apartment Fire

4:48 p.m. - The Spokane Fire Department extinguished an apartment fire in the 1500 block of West Mission Avenue.

April 28

Fire at Waste to Energy Plant

5:13 p.m. - SFD and Waste to Energy Plant employees work together to extinguish garbage fire.

April 27

Recreational Vehicle Fire Spreads Due To High Winds

4:17 p.m. - High winds carry flaming debris to nearby home.

NorthTown Mall Incident

2:46 p.m. - Spokane Fire and Fire District 9 respond to a 911 report of a fire located in the basement at NorthTown Mall.

South Hill Structure Fire

2:43 p.m. - SFD and Fire District 8 extinguish structure fire.

April 16

Downtown Commercial Structure Fire

8:30 p.m. - SFD responds to fire at Cruz Custom Boots at 209 West Main Avenue.

Body Recovered by SFD Water Rescue Team

8:24 p.m. - SFD responds to Upriver Drive Dam to remove a deceased person from the Spokane River.

April 13

National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week

4:22 p.m. - Thank you SREC, SPD Dispatch and SFD Dispatch!

Increase in Possible Illegal Burning Calls

3:53 p.m. - Area fire departments are seeing an increase in calls for possible illegal burning.

Easter Morning Garage Fire

3:47 p.m. - Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish a garage fire and keep it from significantly progressing to the living space or to nearby apartments.

April 9

West Central House Fire

12:47 p.m. - 24 firefighters from SFD and SCFD respond to house fire.

Afternoon GU District Fire

12:43 p.m. - 25 SFD firefighters responds to residential structure fire.

April 3

Early Morning Fire In East Central

8:05 p.m. - SFD and SVFD respond to a report of a 53' semi trailer on fire.

April 1

Major Residence Fire

6:38 p.m. - SFD was dispatched to a report of a vehicle into a house with a resulting structure fire.