加勒特·卡贝扎（Garrett Cabeza）
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
(MCT)
May 19—For the second time in two months, Spokane firefighters extinguished a fire on the ninth floor of the Park Tower apartments in downtown Spokane.
两人在217 W.斯波坎瀑布大道的20层塔楼的大厅里接受了治疗。消防局长布莱恩·舍弗（Brian Schaeffer）说，周四早晨大火后。他说，一个人被送往医院，吸入了烟雾。
舍弗说，消防员在上午9:20左右在斯波坎会议中心对面的塔上派出了自动警报，然后调度员在九楼的走廊上收到了烟雾的报道。他说，消防员在九楼的部门发现了大火，第一批到达的公司迅速熄灭了。斯波坎消防局新闻稿称，超过50多名消防员在15分钟内扑灭了大火。
The occupant from the unit on fire reported seeing fire beneath a desk, according to a Spokane Fire Department news release. A caregiver was coincidentally at her door for an appointment and helped her escape.
Heat and smoke damaged one unit, and caused slight damage to the floor the unit was on, the release said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Roger Weatherford lives on the second floor and evacuated.
“I leaned out over my balcony and I looked up and I could see smoke coming out of one of the floors,” Weatherford said. “I didn’t know which floor at that time.”
Spokane Fire Station 1 is two blocks away from the tower, so firefighters were on scene quickly and climbed up to the ninth floor carrying heavy hose , Schaeffer said.
Schaeffer说：“所有这些工作加上所有设备，他们在不到10分钟的时间内就做到了。”“所以这非常出色。”
该版本称，消防员爬上了所有20层，以控制大火，寻找居民并控制建筑物的公用事业。消防员协助了几名乘员。
The tower has 184 units for residents 62 and over or those who have disabilities. The building is subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
舍弗说：“这是我们最高危险的占领之一，很多脆弱的人。”
Schaeffer expressed concerns last month that the building doesn’t have sprinklers, leaving the tower and its residents vulnerable. He repeated those worries Thursday.
“It’s only alarm (protected), which has always been my concern,” he said.
Last month’s fire left one man with serious injuries.
Firefighters rescued the man by bringing him out of his window, then down to the ground in a ladder truck basket, Schaeffer said at the time. Schaeffer said Thursday the man has since been released from the hospital. That fire started in a ninth-floor apartment and brought more than 70 firefighters to the building.
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