Rice Lake Fire Department Rules King Edward Inn Fire Accidental

At 15:36 on May 26, 2026, the Rice Lake Fire Department was dispatched to an apartment fire at The King Edward Inn Apartments in rice lake, at 6 E Eau Claire Street. The first units arrived two minutes later as tenants began self-evacuating from the building.

Firefighters assisted three tenants in safely evacuating the building. They used a 1 ¾” attack line to extinguish a fire in a third-floor apartment, then ventilated smoke from the building and carried out a secondary search to check adjacent apartments and make sure everyone was out.

The investigation that followed used evidence collected at the scene and interviews. That review led investigators to rule the fire accidental, and no injuries were reported.

King Edward Inn Apartments

The fire stayed contained to a third-floor apartment, according to the department’s account of the response. The secondary search added a final check on nearby units before crews cleared the building, a step that matters when smoke and fire have moved through an apartment complex with occupied units.

For tenants, the immediate consequence was an evacuation and a return to a building that had already been searched and ventilated. The documented outcome leaves the address at 6 E Eau Claire Street with an accidental-fire finding rather than a criminal or intentional one, based on the scene evidence and interviews cited in the investigation.