The 9th Ave face of 823 Madison Street. Fire at First Hill vacant building spreads to neighboring apartments | The Seattle Times
At 4:41AM on January 1st, the first alarm was received for 823 Madison; as the fire spread into 909 9th Ave, it became a three-alarm fire.
Having a sense of deja vu? That’s likely because you recall a similar fire in the same building in June 2022. A fire tore through the top floor of the apartments above Vito’s. It sent 8 people to the hospital and displaced 63 tenants.
Here is what 9th Ave looked like before either fire:
The 9th & Spring Street lot has already been cleared from the fire six months ago; no doubt some builder is already thinking of planting a 40-story monster there. (Can 9th & Madison be far behind?)
The 9th & Spring apartments before the fire. They were “vacant” at the time of the fire.
