Seattlest: Capitol Hill Fire at 1605 Bellevue Claims a Life

jessejb

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:53:14 -0800

And now they say it was deliberately set. Shocking!

MvB

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:14:44 -0800

Weirder and weirder.

jseattle

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:09:47 -0800

Scanner report -- sounds like cops recovered a gun at the scene: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2008/10/27/apartment-fire-update-scanner-gun-recovered

jseattle

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:36:41 -0800

Horrible story ripe with sad, strange background. We have some additional details, pictures and background on the anti-development fight from this summer: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2008/10/27/fire-at-bellevue-pine

jessejb

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:33:42 -0800

So they had trouble getting this guy to leave, he has lots of junk sitting around, they want to tear the building down (thank goodness..its ugly as hell), and demo and construction costs are through the roof. The fire JUST HAPPENS to be on the day he is supposed to be reluctantly moving out and just happens to kill the guy. hmm..

Jeremy M. Barker

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:22:05 -0800

That is the sketchiest building I know. This is crazy. I've been meaning to take pics for weeks because I go by it almost every morning, but there's a pair of cars parked underneath, completely filled with junk. One of them has tags that expired in 1998. I assume these were the possessions of this old guy.

jessejb

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:13:27 -0800

Does anyone else think this is sounds a little fishy?