Street. The flames spread rapidly and the small volunteer department was unable to slow the fire with the town's small water systems. By the time the fire was extinguished, of homes and businesses had been destroyed. Pang warehouse fire On January 5, 1995, the Mary Pang's Food Products warehouse burned in the International District. Four firefighters died when the floor of the warehouse collapsed. It was later determined that the fire was set by Martin Pang, the son of the owner. Seattle's Fallen Firefighters Memorial was built to remember the four who perished. In popular culture In the 1965 film, The Slender Thread, starring Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft, the Seattle Fire Department dispatch center, as well as the interior of Fire Station # 2 are shown and Aid Unit 2 is seen responding to a report of a suicide attempt. In 1979, in the Emergency! TV series' movie-of-the-week "Most Deadly Passage", the main characters visit Seattle for a ride-along with Medic One. In 1985, the department released a cartoon film on fire safety, named The House on the Hill. The 2018 ABC television series Station 19, another spinoff of the Seattle-set medical drama Grey's Anatomy, is set in the department and is the first ever TV series to feature it. In G.I. Joe, the Lifeline character is a paramedic with the SFD. References External links Third Rail, newspaper of Seattle Fire Fighter's Union Local 27, from the Labor Press Project Fire departments in Washington (state) Fire Department 1884 establishments in Washington Territory