By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
One person is dead after a house fire overnight in the Ethel area.
Lewis County Fire District 2 Chief Grant Wiltbank said a male was found deceased in the home on Nicholson Road, about a half mile east of Lewis and Clark State Park.
The cause is under investigation.
District 2 was called just before midnight and found the residence fully involved in flames when they arrived, Wiltbank said.
“The first engine company got there and fire was coming out all the openings, all the windows and doors,” he said.
A neighbor had smelled smoke, looked outside and saw the fire, he said.
The chief didn’t say where in the home the individual was found. He wasn’t there. District 2 Assistant Chief Mike Dorothy was the incident commander.
Nicholson Road is a dead-end road off of Oyler Road.
About thirty firefighters from four departments responded, Wiltbank said.
A Napavine area firefighter who assisted described the residence as a smaller single-story wood frame house.
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