Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Car Catches Fire Inside Rainier Avenue Auto Repair Shop

No one was injured in the fire.

A fire inside Star Auto, located at 215 S.W. Sunset Boulevard near the intersection with Rainier Avenue S. in under investigation after a car inside the shop caught fire late Friday afternoon.

Renton Fire and Emergency Services were dispatched to the repair shop just after 4:20 p.m. The call was upgraded to a 2nd alarm while units were in route because of a visible thermal column, according to officials.

The first units arrived within four minutes and 43 seconds of the fist call to find a single car β€œinside an auto repair facility that was well involved.” Firefighters extinguished the blaze within three minutes and 21 seconds of arrival of the first engine.

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All employees and customers had left the building by the time firefighters arrived and the fire was quickly extinguished.

Renton Police units assisted with traffic control and a fire investigator is currently at the scene.

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