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Downtown Vacant Commercial Building Fire

Justin de Ruyter, Spokane Fire PIO, jderuyter@spokanecity.org


Friday, December 27, 2024 at 8:21 a.m.


Spokane Fire Department was dispatched to a possible building fire at 12:22 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Crews arrived to find light smoke from a 1 story vacant commercial building in the 200 block of Main. Crews forced entry into the building, found and extinguished the fire within 30 minutes of arrival. No injuries reported. Fire is under investigation by the Spokane Fire Department Investigation Unit.

Spokane Fire thanks Avista and AMR for their assistance on this Christmas Eve fire.