Fireworks have been determined the cause in a July 4 house fire that left one man dead.
In Boulevard Park just south of Seattle, a two-alarm fire broke out around 11 p.m. and quickly engulfed two homes trapping one person inside. King Co. Medical Examiner said 70-year-old Roland Kennedy died of smoke inhalation from that fire.
Neighbors said firefighters got there quickly and rushed inside to get the man out.
"By the time they got to the person, they got them outside the house, started working on him, but that person is deceased," said Eric Autry, spokesman for the Burien & North Highline Fire District.
The fire also burned the house next door. A multi-generational family of nine escaped that house, without injury. That homeowner returned hours later, in the daylight, looking to get his chickens out of his backyard.