7 People Climb to Roof to Escape Seattle Fire
- Posted on December 31, 2010 at 9:21pm by
Meredith Jessup
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SEATTLE (AP/The Blaze) — Firefighters have rescued six people from the rooftop of a burning house and an elderly woman jumped to safety as a blaze destroyed a home in the Seattle neighborhood.
Seattle Fire Department Lt. Sue Stangl says that one woman in her 70‘s had to jump from the house’s roof on to the arms of a firefighter and policeman as the flames advanced. A total of eight people escaped the fire, which destroyed the two-story house.
All residents of the home were transported to the hospital. Stangl says the elderly woman was in critical condition, but expected to recover.
Stangl says the cause of the fire is not known yet.
Eyewitness accounts from KING5 describe the blaze:
Ashley Luberts,16, was asleep when the fire started. She says her father and cousin went through the house, waking everyone up.
“He saw flames and smoke so he … instant reaction, ran up the stairs, but couldn’t close the door behind him. He went into our room and … woke us all up and there were flames already starting to come up,” said Luberts.
The family was unable to get out downstairs, so they scrambled out a window to the roof. They had to move a dresser to get through the window.
“The flames were coming out of the front of the house at least 8 to 10 feet,” said neighbor Holly Yeager.
“When we woke up and opened the door it was just a wall of smoke,” said neighbor Jim Becker. “The people were on the roof just screaming for their lives.”
“We saw people on the roof, but we didn’t know how many people were inside,” said Yeager.
Police and firefighters were able to pull all the family members off the roof to safety.
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Posted on January 1, 2011 at 4:50pmGood lookin’ out to the Samaritan that brought them the shoes!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 1:17amThank God they are all safe!
Report Post »cstcomputers
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 1:02amThere sure seems to be a disproportionate amount of fires in Seattle for some reason…
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 3:46ame.l.f.
Report Post »kadiatu
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 12:33amWow! A father who cares about his family more than himself and look what happens? Everyone survives. Here in Georgia, it seems that most of the fires you hear about involve the adults waking up to flames and running from the house screaming for someone to go back in and save their kids…and then the story becomes, “Three children die in a house fire.” Way to go, Dad in Seattle.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 31, 2010 at 11:55pmplease god, bless this family in their time of need,we know that with you we are safe,i ask that you will see that all will be safe and that they all recover.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 12:10am@commonsenseguy…Amen!
Report Post »DVT
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 6:48amAmen!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:16amThey were very lucky, I wonder if there were smoke alarms.
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 5:09pmFantastic story. Everyone is alive. Praise be to God. Amen!
Report Post »MHP
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:34pmAmen to all that.
Seattle Fire Dept. is the very very best. One of my friends died in the Pang Wearhouse fire in 1995
Report Post »SFD Lt. Walter Kilgore and 3 other firefighters He was commander of Hazmat Unit 77
This fire was arson, deliberately set.
Thanks to Reno and Clinton that bastard Martin Pang got 30 years in the pen.
We wanted the DP for him, but he got out of the country and fled to Rio, and they wouldn’t extradite him lest he served max of 30 years.