Candle, wax melter may have led to destruction of three units at Washington Square Apartments last August
Most of the four-unit apartment building destroyed by the August fire at Washington Square Apartments has been torn down. Only the one unit that was mostly undamaged remains.
A fire that destroyed a four-unit building at Cheney's Washington Square Apartments may have been caused by a lit candle and a cluttered computer desk.
According to a report written by Spokane Fire Department investigator Lt. Steve Jones, obtained through a Cheney Free Press public records request, listed the official cause of the Aug. 5 blaze as undetermined. In the report, however, the resident of the unit where the fire began suspects it was a candle at her computer desk.
Shannan Kain told Jones she was in her ground-floor apartment that hot Sunday afternoon seated in her motorized wheelcha...
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