SEATTLE — A three-alarm fire destroyed a strip mall in North Seattle early Thursday.
The cause of the fire in the Roosevelt neighborhood was under investigation, with no results expected until Friday, fire department officials said. There also was no damage estimate Thursday.
The mall housed a coffee shop, a hair salon and a video store. No injuries were reported.
The fire department received a call just after 1 a.m. Thursday. Crews were able to save an adjacent restaurant and brought the fire under control in about four hours.
Pulling plug on Channel One: The Seattle School Board has voted to phase out Channel One, a controversial news-and-commercials video service, by the 2004-05 school year. The panel also is moving to tone down advertising on soft-drink vending machines. The policy also places tough limits on the kinds of advertising and logos allowed on school property. Its adoption last week followed intensive lobbying led by the Citizens’ Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools.
Mount Vernon
Buffer zone plan rejected: A judge has thrown out Skagit County’s plan to require 75-foot buffer zones along salmon streams that run through farmland, saying the proposal may not adequately protect fish. The county’s Managed Agriculture Riparian Plan was rejected by Thurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Pomeroy in Olympia, who ruled late last week on an appeal from the Swinomish Tribe and the Washington Environmental Council. The county plan exempted farmers in the Skagit River delta, and those whose streams are behind dikes or run through pumping stations or floodgates. The court found the exemptions too broad and numerous to provide adequate protection for fish.
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