Fires damage two homes in same neighborhood

The Vancouver Fire Department responded to two different house fires in the same neighborhood that started within about five minutes of one-another.

“We could see one from the other,” said Drew Tracy, battalion chief of the Vancouver Fire Department.

Although the timing and locations of the two incidents were very close, Tracy said the two events were unrelated and were responded to separately.

At 3:23 p.m. fire crews received a report of an attic fire single-family home in the 200 block of Southeast 103rd Avenue in Vancouver. The cause is still under investigation.

Minutes later, fire crews took a call about a fire in the 800 block of Southeast 105th Avenue. Tracy said the cause is believed to be a wood stove, but it’s still under investigation as of Saturday night.

No one was injured in either fire, though both houses were significantly damaged.