12 Hurt In 3-Alarm Fire Near Downtown Seattle

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The firefighters were treated for heat and stress. The nine residents were treated for inhaling smoke, fire department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick said.

The fire was reported at 7:45 a.m. at the 7-story Jensonia Hotel, a 1920s vintage residential hotel on 8th Ave. at Seneca in the First Hill area near downtown.

Firefighters Scramble At Fire Scene

When firefighters arrived, flames were coming out a sixth-floor window. The fire was under control by 8:41 a.m.

More than 80 firefighters in five engines, five ladder trucks and medic units and other cars converged on the scene.

The Jensonia is the same building where a fire last Thursday sent three people to the hospital with smoke inhalation. That was started by someone smoking in bed in a second-floor apartment.

A total of 94 residents were displaced because of Tuesday's fire.

The Seattle Fire Department asked for mutual aid from nearby cities because so many of the city's engines, ladder companies and aid cars were at the scene.

A Metro bus was brought in to accomodate the patients and residents.

There was no immediate word on a cause or an estimate of damage.