{"id":953,"date":"2010-07-24T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2010-07-25T00:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T07:04:40","slug":"news-brief-centralia-furniture-store-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Centralia furniture store destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A firefighter in front of Just Wood Furniture in Centralia is one of several putting water on the blaze that broke out around 3 o'clock Saturday morning. \/ Photo by Richard LaLonde<\/p><\/div>\n

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

A three-alarm fire ravaged a furniture store in Centralia overnight and spread to a neighboring former gas station before it was knocked down.<\/p>\n

The Just Wood furniture business on Harrison Avenue near Yew Street sounds like it’s a complete loss, an assistant fire chief said this morning as he was coming on duty.<\/p>\n

“The (convenience) store next door had already started burning when units were arriving, therefore, it was pretty advanced,” Riverside Fire Authority Assistant Chief Mike Kytta said.<\/p>\n

One firefighter sustained an ankle injury and was hospitalized, but he has since been treated and released, Kytta said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters were called around 3 a.m. and found the business with an adjoining two-story shop ablaze, according to Kytta.<\/p>\n

They kept the damage to the Centralia Food Mart to a minimum – its one wall was charred – and protected another nearby office building, he said. The Food Mart used to be a service station, but its gas pumps and tanks have been removed, according to Kytta.<\/p>\n

The assistant chief said he expected the some of the department and investigators to be on site much of today.<\/p>\n

Centralia police said Harrison Avenue between West First and Yew streets would be closed until 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

The last three-alarm fire Kytta could recall was four years ago when half of Oakview Elementary School in north Centralia was destroyed by runaway fireworks.<\/p>\n

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The flames begin to consume the street side storefront of Just Wood Furniture. \/ Photo by Richard LaLonde<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fire trucks from Centralia and Chehalis sit on Harrison Avenue early Saturday morning. \/ Photo by Richard LaLonde<\/p><\/div>\n

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Firefighters continue to put water on Just Wood Furniture as well as two adjacent buildings which were spared. \/ Photo by Richard LaLonde<\/p><\/div>\n

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Firefighters battle the three-alarm fire well into Saturday morning. \/ Photo by Richard LaLonde<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A three-alarm fire ravaged a furniture store in Centralia overnight and spread to a neighboring former gas station before it was knocked down. The Just Wood furniture business on Harrison Avenue near Yew Street sounds like it’s a complete loss, an assistant fire chief said this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}