Crime & Safety
Mom and Five Kids Displaced by Fire
No injuries but the apartment suffered fire and water damage.
A mother and five children were able to safely get out of their apartment when a fire broke out on Thursday.
The mother and the kids - ages 10, 6 3, 2, and 11 months - were uninjured.
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The fire happened in a bedroom of their home at the Pinewood Village Apartment at 1018 NE 17th Avenue.
Firefighters arrived to find flames coming from the bedroom window of their second floor apartment.
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They were able to knock down the fire within ten minutes of having been dispatched.
The apartment suffered water and fire damage and the family will have to stay elsewhere.
The Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross was on scene to provide assistance.
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