Fire Sirens

Fire District 1 responded to 270 calls the week of Sept. 14-20. District 1 serves the neighborhoods of Silver Firs and Martha Lake.

Sept. 14

Firefighters took two patients to Stevens Hospital after a car drove into an embankment on southbound Interstate 405, south of Interstate 5, at 6:46 a.m.

Hilltop Elementary School was evacuated for less than an hour while firefighters investigated the source of a strong odor of natural gas in the building. Firefighters tested the air in the school, found no hazard and let children back into the school. After speaking with gas company officials, firefighters learned the odor was coming from gas being purged from a 16-inch line in the area.

Sept. 16

Firefighters were dispatched to a motorcycle accident at 228th Street SW and 32nd Avenue W. in Brier at 12:19 p.m. It turned out to be a motorized scooter that had bumped into a curb. There were no injuries.

Sept. 17

Firefighters transported a boy to Providence Everett Medical Center after he was hit by a car in the 1900 block of 196th Street SW.

Sept. 18

Firefighters responded to a one-car rollover accident at 7:14 a.m. on SR 525, west of Alderwood Mall Parkway. They arrived to find the car on its top, on the inside shoulder of the road. There were no injuries.

At 10:19 a.m. firefighters responded to a motor vehicle collision in the 16400 block of Seventh Place W. and took one patient to Providence Everett Medical Center.

Sept. 19

Firefighters transported one patient to Stevens Hospital after responding to a three-car collision at 5:37 a.m. on southbound Interstate 5, south of 164th Street SW.

A pedestrian struck by a car at 232nd Street SW and 56th Avenue W. in Mountlake Terrace at 8:26 a.m. was taken by firefighter/paramedics to Harborview Medical Center.