About FlashAlert on Twitter:
FlashAlert utilizes the free service Twitter to distribute emergency text messages. While you are welcome to register your cell phone text message address directly into the FlashAlert system, we recommend that you simply "follow" the FlashAlert account for Hillsboro Fire and Rescue by clicking on the link below and logging in to (or creating) your free Twitter account. Twitter sends messages out exceptionally fast thanks to arrangements they have made with the cell phone companies.
Click here to add Hillsboro Fire and Rescue to your Twitter account or create one.
@HillsboroFire
Just before 3:35 pm today, multiple callers to 911 reported flames and a fully engulfed garage at 1315 NE Stile Dr. in Hillsboro. Callers reported hearing many small explosions coming from within the garage. Two vehicles parked in the driveway in front of the garage also caught fire. A resident attempted to relocate one of the vehicles away from the garage as part of the vehicle was burning.
Engine 3 arrived to find a single-story residence with the garage fully engulfed. As they began to attack the fire in the garage, Engine 6 arrived and worked to extinguish the relocated vehicle that had caught fire. Firefighters determined that the fire had spread into the attic and transitioned their attack. Truck 5 engaged the roof of the residence to provide ventilation to allow smoke and heated gas to release from the structure. Extinguishment of the attic fire was challenging as firefighters contended with abundant storage of personal items. Firefighters searched the structure and confirmed that all residents made it out safely. No injuries were reported.
A fire investigator determined the area of origin for the fire was in the garage. The cause of the fire was related to a running vehicle inside the garage.
A Hillsboro Fire Public Safety chaplain responded to the fire to provide support to the residents with assistance from the Red Cross. Two adults were displaced because of the fire.
Hillsboro Fire & Rescue was assisted by Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, Metro West Ambulance, Hillsboro Police, NW Natural, and Portland General Electric.
-###-