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Fire at duplex displaces Vancouver woman

By Andy Matarrese, Columbian environment and transportation reporter
Published: August 2, 2017, 9:27pm

A woman was displaced following a fire in a duplex a couple of blocks east of the Fort Vancouver National Site.

Firefighters were called to a home at 2421 E. 6th St. around 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Vancouver firefighter Raymond Egan said a neighbor reported the fire after seeing some smoke from the adjacent unit.

Egan said firefighters were initially sent to the duplex to check on the house, but the call was upgraded to a full structure fire response when the caller said the fire appeared to be inside a wall.

The neighbors pounded on the door and got the woman who was inside out of the unit, he said. 

Egan said firefighters got inside a wall and brought the fire under control fairly quickly. They were there for about an hour and 15 minutes.

The tenant wasn’t injured in the fire but was transported to a hospital for evaluation, Egan said.

The fire didn’t gut the building or do substantial damage, but it still displaced the woman, he said.

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Columbian environment and transportation reporter