Fire Damages Pullman Home

Thu., June 29, 2000

A mid-morning fire tore through a two-story Pullman home Wednesday, causing $180,000 in damage.

No residents were injured in the fire at 610 SW Cherry.

When the fire broke out, Pat Bundy was napping in her basement apartment with a pillow over her head to keep her cat from bothering her.

“By the time the police woke me up, my apartment was filled with smoke,” said Bundy, who grabbed her clothes, wallet and two dogs, Sophie and Marla on the way out.

She didn’t have time to get her cats. One was rescued by firefighters, another is missing but believed to have escaped, and a third died of smoke inhalation.

The home was owned by zoology professor Alan Koch and his wife, Kay Bundy, who is Pat’s mother.

Koch said he went briefly to his lab on campus and returned to find a small fire burning near the refrigerator.

He tried to put it out, then called 911, but the fire was rapid and intense.

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