$800,000 fire hits Eagle Crest four-plex
(Update: Details on fire; damage estimated at $800,000; comments from witness who helped)
A fire destroyed one unit in a four-plex at Eagle Crest Resort west of Redmond Monday morning and damaged three others, causing $800,000 damage but no injuries as a mother, three children and a dog fled the unit where it started, officials said.
Redmond Fire and Rescue responded shortly around 8:20 a.m. to the reported fire in the two-story four-ilex in the 800 block of Golden Pheasant Drive, Fire Marshal Traci Cooper said.
Crews arrived to find the unit in the middle of the building ablaze and learned everyone was out of the structure, Cooper said. Three of the units have year-round residents and the fourth is a vacation rental, she said.
The family living in the unit where the fire began was home, and the mother awakened to smoke in her bedroom, Cooper said. She quickly awakened her three children and they all evacuated unhurt, along with the dog.
“She credited her oldest son with thinking quickly and helping get them all to safety,” Coper said in a news release. She told NewsChannel 21 that “the renters advised they did not hear any smoke alarms.”
The unit where the fire began was a total loss, while the two adjoining units had some fire damage and significant water and smoke damage. The unit furthest from the fire also sustained smoke damage, Cooper said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. Initial loss estimates were pegged at $800,000.
Kyle Williams was among those who rushed to help when they saw the fire.
“I jumped out of the truck real fast, ran over here, immediately made sure that everyone was out of the house, and there was a few other people helping,” Williams said. “Then I turned on the irrigation around the house and then went to the hose bibs on the back deck and turned on those to start flooding the area.”
The American Red Cross was called in to help tenants from two units, while the third declined assistance. The Red Cross said its disaster responders helped two families, including three adults and three children, with resources to meet their immediate basic needs, such as temporary housing, food and clothing.
A total of two-dozen firefighters were called in, with mutual aid assistance from the Sisters-Camp Sherman and Cloverdale fire districts, the Bend Fire Department., Crook County Fire and EMS, Crooked River Ranch, the Red Cross, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and Central Electric Cooperative.
