The Associated Press
 AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Firefighters place a ladder at the scene of the fatal fire Monday, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. |
SEATTLE — Police say the elderly man killed in an apartment building fire in Seattle was the last tenant of the older building scheduled for demolition.
Spokeswoman Renee Witt says the owners had told the man to be out today.
Detectives are investigating the death, and fire department investigators are looking for the cause of the two-alarm fire.
It was reported about 6:30 a.m. today in the man’s first-floor unit at 1605 Bellevue Ave., in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Fire Department spokeswoman Helen Fitzpatrick says he died at the scene.
A sign says the four-story building will be torn down to make way for a 103-unit residential building.
One firefighter suffered a minor injury and was treated at Harborview Medical Center.