One person was hospitalized with apparent smoke inhalation after trying to douse a garage fire in an east Vancouver home Tuesday afternoon.
Dispatchers sent firefighters to the Parkway East neighborhood just after 3 p.m. for a reported house fire.
Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Pete Adams said firefighters learned on the way that at least one person there was injured.
Adams said the firefighters arrived at 16401 N.E. 35th St. to find light smoke coming from the home’s garage.
Firefighters attended to the injured person while others went to check the garage.
Adams said the occupants smelled smoke, then opened the garage door to find a fire. They went inside the garage with a garden hose to try putting out the fire.
“That’s when one of the occupants was overcome with smoke,” Adams said. That person was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The fire was largely out by the time firefighters got there, Adams said.
Adams said the fire appeared to be limited to the contents of the garage.
“Nobody will be displaced as a result of it,” he said.
The Clark County Fire Marshal’s Office was investigating its cause.
