Three-alarm fires a rarity here

Some other memorable fires

By Craig Brown, Columbian Editor

Published: April 22, 2011, 12:00am

Thursday’s three-alarm fire at the Rolling Creek Apartments was a rarity. Some other memorable three- and four-alarm fires in recent years:

• November 1995: A four-alarm fire destroys the Broadway Auto Shop, 114 E. Sixth, and killed an 8-year-old boy in sleeping in a back room.

• September 2001: A three-alarm fire heavily damages a 90-year-old home converted into apartments at 606 W. 13th St.

• November 2000: A three-alarm fire destroys the old Elahan Place mental health facility, 1214 W. 24th St., which had been boarded up.

• December 1998: A three-alarm fire damages the ducting and other parts of the finishing room at Pendleton Woolen Mills in Washougal.

• August 1994: A three-alarm fire ruins the New Liberty Theater in Camas. It is later rebuilt.

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