Fire crews were ventilating the High Point Management Center at 35th and Holly Street SW after an arson fire on the Southeast corner of the building exterior produced a lot of smoke and then flared back up in the afternoon.
UPDATE 3:30pm
A fire that was declared an arson at the High Point Management Center in the 6500 block of 35th SW, flared up in the roof drawing fire crews to the scene again shortly after 2pm. Fire crews arrived to find the roof smoking and quickly got ladder trucks deployed so holes could be cut in the roof to access what was burning.
Southwest Precinct Commander Pierre Davis said they believe this fire was the work of the same individual who has been setting fires for more than a week in West Seattle starting with some boxes, then a dumpster fire, then two cars near High Point, and now this building. This pattern of escalation is not common but it does happen Captain Davis said. He said the fires were all set between 1am and 4 am in the morning.
Arson investigators were on the scene and attempting to determine what was used to start the first fire. Capt. Davis said they were "stepping up our awareness" with a full array of investigative and enforcement tools being brought to bear to catch the individual.
Original Post
A fire that began, according to the Seattle Fire Department, on the outside wall of the High Point Management Center at 35th Ave SW and SW Holly produced a lot of smoke, filling the interior of the building.
The call went out shortly after 3:15 am and fire crews arrived to a smoking building and immediately began opening up the building to ventilate it.
Fire inspectors were due to arrive but Seattle Police blocked 35th ave SW and were conducting searches in the area.
The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage has not yet been determined but Seattle fire called the circumstances suspicious.
