{"id":13380,"date":"2012-07-16T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13380"},"modified":"2012-07-18T02:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:29:03","slug":"empty-centralia-house-goes-up-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13380","title":{"rendered":"Empty Centralia house goes up in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fire breaks out in Logan Street house. \/ Courtesy photo by Robin Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n

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By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CENTRALIA – Members of the police department joined firefighters in north Centralia this afternoon to begin investigating after a vacant house went up in flames.<\/p>\n

Riverside Fire Authority was called around 4:15 to the corner of Logan and Vienna streets for reports of a fully involved structure fire, according to Fire Chief Jim Walkowski.<\/p>\n

“It’s reportedly abandoned, it’s had drug activity in the past,” Walkowski said.<\/p>\n

At 5:30 p.m. crews were still putting water on the one and a half-story wood-frame home.<\/p>\n

Walkowski said they were trying to confirm there was nobody inside. They had various reports, including of someone walking away, he said.<\/p>\n

Several neighborhood residents, including young people watched from across the street at the playground of the old Logan School.<\/p>\n

Eleven-year-old Ashley Taylor said she, her sister and a friend were at home next door when they smelled smoke.<\/p>\n

“And next, the whole front was puking fire,” Ashley said.<\/p>\n

Robin Taylor, 15, said they heard “bursting” and glass breaking.<\/p>\n

“It was the biggest fire I’ve ever seen,” she said.<\/p>\n

The girls said a family with several children used to live there, and sometimes the grown ups come back.<\/p>\n

Walkowski said two firefighters were treated at the scene for heat exhaustion. Riverside was joined by departments from Chehalis, rural Chehalis and the Rochester area.<\/p>\n

The front of the house was charred. The blaze extended to a detached garage in back, according to Walkowski.<\/p>\n

An adjacent home sustained minor radiant heat damage, according to the chief.<\/p>\n

Update: Investigators determined there was nobody inside the structure. Walkowski said the residents had moved out about two months ago.
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CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect the two firefighters suffered heat exhaustion, not smoke exhaustion.<\/p>\n

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Smoke billows above burning house on Logan Street. \/ Courtesy photo by Ashley Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n

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Flames pour out the front and back of the one and a half story house. \/ Courtesy photo by Mandy Taylor<\/p><\/div>\n

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Firefighters knock down blaze on Logan Street in Centralia.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CENTRALIA – Members of the police department joined firefighters in north Centralia this afternoon to begin investigating after a vacant house went up in flames. Riverside Fire Authority was called around 4:15 to the corner of Logan and Vienna streets for reports of a fully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-13380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13383,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions\/13383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}