A plume of black smoke could be seen for miles coming from a house fire in the Evergreen Hill neighborhood on Friday afternoon.

The fire took the life of a dog and is the second residential house fire in three days in the area.

Kirkland, Redmond and Woodinville firefighters responded to the report at 12:47 p.m., called in by Kirkland Parks Department employee conducting maintenance at 132nd Square Park, which the back of the home abuts.

“Someone from the parks department called it in from the park so we had no address but it was easy to find,” said Kirkland Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Jeffery. “When we got here we just wanted to slow down the spread of the fire and get inside. We had a report that a resident in the home recently had a surgery but there was no one in the home.”

The entire backside of the home was engulfed in flames and drew a small crowd of onlookers to the park.

“I was in my in my living room and my mom screams ‘the house is on fire’ and I said ‘which one?'” said Yaiza Gonzalez, who lives on the same block. “She said ‘the neighbor’s.’ So I ran outside.”

Gonzales said that some other neighbors and people from the park were outside and she could hear the sirens from the emergency response.

In all, five engines and two ladders responded to the blaze.

“Yes, they had a dog named Bruce and I heard he passed away,” Gonzales said.

According to Jeffery, the only casualty in the fire was the family dog and no firefighters were injured in the response.

The cause of the fire and extent of the damage to the home is still under investigation.

The incident comes just two days after a woman died in a house fire in a home on the Kirkland and Bothell boundary on June 3.

The Bothell Police Department is investigating the cause along with the Bothell Fire Department arson investigators.

“Anytime you have two fires in close proximity you look for any similarities,” Jeffrey said. “Luckily, stuff is still wet so it doesn’t spread through the trees. But that will change in the next few weeks.”