Two firefighters were injured Monday while battling a duplex fire in Vancouver’s Lincoln neighborhood.
The fire was first reported at 2:56 p.m. at the Logan’s Court duplexes in the 1100 block of West 36th Street, according to emergency dispatch records.
The first arriving engine found smoke coming from the front of one of the units, Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Joe Spatz said. Three crews from the fire department and three crews from Clark County Fire District 6 responded to the address, he said.
Firefighters initially entered the home and discovered a fire that had spread into the attic. They started cutting holes in the ceiling to pump water onto the fire due to a heated ceiling — zig-zagging wire placed between drywall that serves as the home’s heating system, according to the spokesman.
Heated ceilings can pose dangers for firefighters, because they can get trapped in the wiring if the floor collapses below them, Spatz said.