Flames light up the night sky on the 1100 block of Boistfort Road. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 13
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The cause of a house fire in the Boistfort Valley yesterday evening is being investigated today.
Nobody was home and no one was injured.
Firefighters were called just before 6 p.m. to the 1100 block of Boistfort Road, a mile or so south of the BawFaw Grange, according to Lewis County Fire District 13.
“I was one of the first units on the scene, and by the time we arrived, the structure was fully involved,” Fire Chief Kyle DePriest said.
Flames were already rising through the roof, he said.
Crews fought the blaze from the outside only, joined by members of Fire Districts 6 and 11, DePriest said.
He described the residence as a double-wide mobile or modular home, with wood siding.
The couple who live there were out to dinner in Chehalis, and returned while firefighters were still there. They had no ideas what could have ignited it, he said.
The structure is still standing, with heavy fire damage in its center, he said.
Firefighters were on the scene until about 1 a.m. An investigator will be heading out there today, he said.
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