EVERETT, Wash. — Three residents of an Everett home were critically injured with burns and smoke inhalation after an early morning fire on Wednesday.
Everett firefighters rescued two people from inside the home, one of whom was in a wheelchair, and a third person self-evacuated.
All three people were taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. They are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit.
Fire officials responded just before 4:15 a.m. to reports of a mattress fire, and found one victim in the home's front yard. The wheelchair-bound resident and the third victim were rescued before all three were transported to a different hospital.
The two-alarm fire drew more than 50 firefighters, and it took approximately 70 minutes to fully extinguish the flames.
The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, but preliminary information led investigators to believe a space heater located near a mattress is what started the fire.
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