The fire last night was one of Ruston's bigger in recent years. The call was dispatched as fire with possible entrapment, meaning people might be trapped in the burning house. As the fire engine was on the way to the house, a second dispatch updated the fire fighters that entrapment of two people was confirmed on the upper floor with only one way out the building. For rescuers, that spells a real challenge.
Ruston Fire put in a call for mutual aid from Tacoma Fire immediately upon arrival due to the nature of the call.
Firefighters initiated a primary search of structure immediately upon their arrival. Fortunately, the family had already made it out of the building and were safe.
There were reports of tires, a propane tank and other flammable containers exploding in the midst of the blaze. One Ruston and two Tacoma firefighters went inside the burning building for an interior attack on the fire. The Ruston firefighter was sent to the hospital as a precaution when he had trouble catching his breath. He checked out fine.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Ruston Fire Chief Don Torbet reports that the call was received at Fire Com at 1:39:52. Fire Com dispatched the call to Ruston at 1:40:57. Ruston's engine was on scene 2 minutes, 43 seconds later at 1:43:40.
The family has been asked to let us know how we can help. We'll keep you posted on some concrete ways we as a community can help when/if we hear anything from them.
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"Ruston Fire put in a call for mutual aid from Tacoma Fire immediately upon arrival due to the nature of the call."
Any word on how long it took Tacoma to respond?
I will ask the fire chief to see if he knows the answer.
I want to thank the members of our fire department who are always there to volunteer their time and service to our community. Thursday night (Friday morning) I was woken up by sirens and deisel engines as many of us were. As we all walked down the street half asleep to see what was going on our firemen were up and moving running fire hoses to hydrants, verifying people werent trapped inside, working in perfect unison with our neighboring department. Its nice to see after all the termoil that went on with the "Wayne Report" that the findings were accurate and we do have a fire department we can rely on for the highest quality service, excellent response times and professional people that are amazing members of our small community. Don thank you for the peice of mind you and your crew give me when my kids and I go to bed at night!
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