Smoke detectors wake resident of Redmond apartment

Published 9:55 am Thursday, May 16, 2013

Just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of an apartment complex in the 9800 block of Avondale Road Northeast were awakened by the smoke alarm sounding in their second-floor residence. The late-morning fire was contained by the quick action of the teenage resident using a fire extinguisher, according to Redmond Fire Department Capt. Tom Langton.

Residents advised fire department personnel that three teenagers, a male and two females, occupied the second-floor apartment at the time the fire broke out. The male resident awoke to find the apartment quickly filling with smoke from a fire in an unattended pan on the stove. He obtained the fire-code-required fire extinguisher from the stairwell outside the apartment door and utilized it to douse the flames prior to the arrival of firefighters.

Redmond firefighters were dispatched at 11:02 a.m. when the fire-alarm monitoring company notified the NORCOM fire-dispatch center of the incident. Arriving firefighters found the apartment filled with smoke down to waist level. The firefighters confirmed the fire did not extend beyond the pan and assisted the residents with ventilating the smoke from the apartment. There were no injuries to residents or firefighters, and damage was limited to pan. The residents were able to return to the apartment within the hour.