A fire caused damage estimated at $50,000 to an apartment clubhouse near Martha Lake early Monday morning, Dec. 20.
A security officer discovered the fire around 5:15 a.m. as he was responding to an alarm in the clubhouse of the Millwood Estates apartments in the 500 block of 164th Street SW. The alarm response officer, Adam Burns, used a fire extinguisher to knock down the flames in the back hallway of the building, according to Leslie Hynes, public information officer for Snohomish County Fire District 1. “He did a great job.”
No one was inside the clubhouse building at the time of the fire and there were no injuries.
Crews from Fire Districts 1 and 7 responded to the call, and quickly extinguished what was left of the fire inside the hallway wall. Damage from the flames was minimal, but there was heavy smoke damage throughout the building.
The fire appeared to have started in the area of a wall heater. The Snohomish County Fire Marshal’s office is continuing to investigate the cause.
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