By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A family is displaced after a fire broke out in an Ethel area home on Friday afternoon.
A teenaged grandson was home but he got out when a neighbor knocked on the door, Lewis County Fire District 8 Chief Duran McDaniel said.
When crews arrived they found lots of smoke rolling out from the house, McDaniel said.
It happened about 2:30 p.m. at the 2000 block of U.S. Highway 12.
McDaniel said the fire was contained to the single loft-type room on the second level. There was so much smoke, it seemed the entire room was burning and firefighters had to access it from the roof, he said.
“They’ve got more water damage than anything else,” he said.
Then yesterday, firefighters from Salkum and Glenoma joined Lewis County Fire District 4 when a fire in a motorhome spread to a shop building west of Morton off state Route 508.
Responders were called about 2 p.m. to the scene on Sidorski Lane, and battled the blaze for roughly four hours, according to McDaniel.
“By the time they got there, both were fully involved,” Lewis County Fire District 18 Chief Ed Lowe said. “The wind was not our friend.”
About an hour later, Salkum-area firefighters were called to another motorhome fire, this one in Ethel on the 100 block of Pinkerton Road.
McDaniel said he wasn’t certain, but believed someone was living in the roughly 40 foot RV which was destroyed. Nobody was injured.
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