FIREFIGHTERS from Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue battle a blaze that destroyed a home at 800 W. 13th Street early Monday morning, Nov. 9, and displaced four residents. Another fire in the same neighborhood occurred that evening but caused much less damage. Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue Chief Bob Palmer said there have been six or seven structure fires in the last three weeks or so.
A DALLESPORT firefighter uncovers smoking embers in the aftermath of a shop fire at 35 Tidyman Road that caused extensive damage. Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue assisted in battling the blaze in the 30 feet by 50 foot building with a second floor in the rear. Klickitat County Fire District No. 6 had command of fire suppression efforts. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
FIREFIGHTERS from Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue battle a blaze that destroyed a home at 800 W. 13th Street early Monday morning, Nov. 9, and displaced four residents. Another fire in the same neighborhood occurred that evening but caused much less damage. Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue Chief Bob Palmer said there have been six or seven structure fires in the last three weeks or so.
A DALLESPORT firefighter uncovers smoking embers in the aftermath of a shop fire at 35 Tidyman Road that caused extensive damage. Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue assisted in battling the blaze in the 30 feet by 50 foot building with a second floor in the rear. Klickitat County Fire District No. 6 had command of fire suppression efforts. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Investigation continues regarding the cause of a fire that gutted a home at 800 W. 13th Street early Monday morning. Four people were in the home at the time and all got out safely, fire officials said.
Another fire Monday evening nearby, in the 700 block of West 13th Street, was minor, and damage was largely confined to a bathroom exhaust fan, said Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue Fire Marshal Dan Hammel.
MCFR Chief Bob Palmer noted there’s been a rash of fires recently, with six or seven in the last three weeks or so. In Dallesport on Saturday afternoon a shop caught fire.
On the property at 800 West 13th St., The Dalles Codes Enforcement Officer Nikki Lesich said property owner John Doyle had just the week prior complied with a city order to clean it up.
“He’s always been very cooperative with me,” Lesich said. She’s worked with him since 2006 and gets about two complaints a year about his property.
She said two of his neighbors typically
complain about the property, saying it has junk furniture and overgrown vegetation, but a third neighbor also typically helps him clean it up.
Lesich said she didn’t think Doyle himself created the problems necessarily. “There are several people that come and go in that particular building and they tend to come with furniture and go without it,” she said.
“That’s the cyclical problem for him. It’s put upon him,” she said.
The Dalles Police Chief Jay Waterbury said, “John had a lot of calls to his house” from police. “He let people with no homes stay there and it created lots of disturbances and an occasional drug deal. Lots of alcohol abuse. Various code violations. People would cause problems and John or someone would call to have them removed but they would be back the next day.”
The Red Cross was contacted and provided motel rooms to those who wished it, Palmer said.
The house is a total loss, according to fire officials. So far, all that is known is that the fire started in the basement. Completing an investigation can take a week or more, Hammel said.
Lesich said, “The city will obviously be looking at this as a dangerous building and we will have it inspected by a local engineer and if the report comes back that it is a dangerous building that needs to be demolished we will be pursuing demolition of the property.”
She said it’s a legal process “that will take a bit.”
She said the city is still working on demolition of a home that burned at 10th and Mt. Hood last March.
She posted that property two weeks ago as a dangerous property and the bank that owns it was given until Nov. 27 to have demolition permits and until Dec. 27 to have the demolition itself done.
She understands the bank has already indicated it will be seeking an extension of those deadlines.
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