MARYSVILLE — Firefighters in Marysville had a busy Saturday afternoon.
They scrambled at about 2:30 p.m. to take on a house fire north of the city.
Flames had crept up the side and into the attic of a house in the 6300 block of 82nd Street NE.
About 20 firefighters responded. Some cut holes in the roof, while others attacked the flames from inside.
“The fire was knocked out in about 10 minutes,” said acting Battalion Chief Keith Taylor of the Marysville Fire Department.
One firefighter went to Providence Regional Medical Center with minor burns. No residents were hurt.
Crews were still wrapping up the site when they were dispatched to a second house fire about a mile to the north, at the corner of Timberbrook Drive and 55th Drive.
Again, about 20 firefighters responded and quickly put out the flames, which did not get out of the kitchen, Taylor said.
Help came from Snohomish County Fire District 22, North County Fire and Arlington Fire Department.
The resident was taken to Providence Regional Medical Center with possible smoke inhalation, he said.
With both fires out and temperatures in the 80s, Taylor said he is making sure his firefighters drink plenty of water and cool down.
“We’ll wait for the next call, and see what happens next,” he said.
The Snohomish County Fire Marshal is investigating both fires.
Firefighters with the state’s Department of Naturals Resources were busy Saturday battling a brush fire near Granite Falls.
The effort was going slow “due to the terrain and the denseness of the forest’s underbrush,” the Granite Falls Fire Department said in a post on its Facebook page.
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