Cheney fire cause ruled undetermined

Candle, wax melter may have led to destruction of three units at Washington Square Apartments last August

A fire that destroyed a four-unit building at Cheney's Washington Square Apartments may have been caused by a lit candle and a cluttered computer desk.

According to a report written by Spokane Fire Department investigator Lt. Steve Jones, obtained through a Cheney Free Press public records request, listed the official cause of the Aug. 5 blaze as undetermined. In the report, however, the resident of the unit where the fire began suspects it was a candle at her computer desk.

Shannan Kain told Jones she was in her ground-floor apartment that hot Sunday afternoon seated in her motorized wheelcha...

 

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