A fire at a Spokane Valley mobile home on Wednesday would have turned out much worse if firefighters wouldn’t have responded to the same house last year, for a nonfire call, and noticed that the house lacked smoke alarms, leading firefighters to install them for the residents.
Wednesday’s fire started at about 9:30 p.m. on the 1500 block of North Grady Road, according to a news release from Spokane Valley Fire Department. Residents said they were heating cooking oil, left the room, but heard the smoke detectors and came back to the kitchen to find flames coming from the stove.
Four residents, including one in a wheelchair, were able to escape the fire uninjured and go to a neighbor’s house to report the fire.