{"id":4119,"date":"2010-12-25T20:28:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2010-12-25T20:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:28:43","slug":"five-hospitalized-following-christmas-morning-residential-fire-in-salkum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"Five hospitalized following Christmas morning residential fire in Salkum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Firefighters this morning at the fire in Salkum. \/ Courtesy photo by Bob Jackson of Onalaska<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Four residents suffering from smoke inhalation and a responding firefighter who injured his leg were hospitalized after a fire broke out this morning in a Salkum home.<\/p>\n

Some 25 firefighters from Salkum, Onalaska, Mossyrock and Lewis County Fire District 5 based in Napavine answered the 7:30 a.m. call to the residence in between U.S. Highway 12 and state Route 508.<\/p>\n

“Don’t know what caused it, but it was a total loss, a double-wide trailer,” District 8 Assistant Chief Don Taylor said this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Responders got the blaze under control about 11:30 a.m. and the scene was finally cleared about 2 p.m., he said.<\/p>\n

A couple and two older teenage relatives who live there had a pair of out-of-town guests overnight, Taylor said.<\/p>\n

He said one of the house guests was sleeping on the living room floor when she was awakened by what she thought was the sound of bacon cooking.<\/p>\n

“She looked up and saw nobody was cooking and she could see flickering on the walls,” he said. “She opened a door – I don’t know if it was a back door or an inside door – and a ball of fire drove her back.”<\/p>\n

Taylor said the older gentleman who lives there had severe smoke inhalation and a hand injury he thought he got trying to help the others out of the home.<\/p>\n

A District 8 firefighter injured his leg when he fell through the floor during mop up, Taylor said.<\/p>\n

The residence on 100 block of Maple Crest Drive is off a one-lane road with a narrower driveway so arriving fire trucks had to be stacked up along the road making fighting the fire more challenging, according to Taylor.<\/p>\n

A car was destroyed by the fire, but a garage was spared, he said.<\/p>\n

Taylor didn’t know all the details of how the occupants got out but said somebody had thrown a brick through a bedroom window and they were barefoot and in their night clothes at the back of the house when firefighters arrived.<\/p>\n

“We had to bring them past the fire to get them to the ambulances,” he said. Two were carried and the others escorted, he said.<\/p>\n

The fire department contacted the Red Cross to assist the fire victims with a place to stay.<\/p>\n

The cause is under investigation.
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Read this morning’s news item on the fire here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Firefighters this morning at the fire in Salkum. \/ Courtesy photo by Bob Jackson of Onalaska<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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