Three fires that ignited overnight Monday into early Tuesday morning all happened in vacant buildings.
One was in Auburn, one in Tacoma, and a third in the Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle, which has numerous vacant buildings.
The building that burned down in the Rainier Valley neighborhood was a vacant 7/11. Just four months earlier, the vacant Burger King that was next door burned down as well. People in the Rainier Valley neighborhood said buildings stay sitting vacant for too long, which they said allows unhoused people to take shelter in them and sometimes leads to issues like fires.
"In that transition process, you get a lot of abandoned buildings which eventually, like over here, you see turned into an apartment complex, but sometimes things take so long things can happen,” said Marcus Williams, who grew up in the Rainier Valley neighborhood and currently works there.