Kansas City firefighters battle blaze in vacant building at 8th St. and Woodland Ave.
Kansas City firefighters worked to extinguish a blaze in a vacant building at the corner of East 8th Street and Woodland Avenue on Tuesday evening.
Staff at a nearby fire station spotted a column of smoke around 7 p.m. and responded to the building, where they found a full working fire, said Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins with the Kansas City Fire Department. Firefighters entered the building and made it to the structure’s second floor but had to drop back because the fire had progressed too far, he said.
No injuries were reported.
The building is adjacent to a City Union Mission building on 8th Street. Elizabeth Miller, with the mission, said the fire was next to the organization’s warehouse.
“At the time of the fire, no one was present inside of the building,” Miller said. “Our security team is monitoring the situation as it unfolds. To the best of our knowledge we have not sustained damage.”
Firefighters continued to work at putting out the fire around 8:30 p.m. Hopkins said the roof had burned, and the second floor of the building was fully engulfed in flames.
“We won’t know much for a while,” he said. “Based on the extent of the damage, it’s going to make the investigation very difficult as well.”
This story was originally published April 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM.
