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LONGVIEW \u2014 A tripped circuit breaker sparked a house fire Saturday evening, prompting a response from the Longview Fire Department. Crews were dispatched around 7:32 p.m. to a reported fire at 202 Margo Street after residents reported that they circuit breaker had tripped, followed by a burning smell in the home. Upon arrival, firefighters found a fire in the ceiling and attic area of the home, according to our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n
Crews quickly extinguished the fire, which was in its early stages. No injuries were reported. Three occupants were displaced after power to the home was shut off. Officials estimated property damage to be $15,000.<\/p>\n
Fire officials reminded residents to report electrical issues, such as frequent circuit breaker trips, and to have electrical systems inspected when problems arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONGVIEW \u2014 A tripped circuit breaker sparked a house fire Saturday evening, prompting a response from the Longview Fire Department. Crews were dispatched around 7:32 p.m. to a reported fire at 202 Margo Street after residents reported that they circuit breaker had tripped, followed by a burning smell in the home. Upon arrival, firefighters found … Continue reading Circuit breaker malfunction leads to fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1475383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-25_142415-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 04:49:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/2026-01-25_142415-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475643,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475158\/revisions\/1475643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}