By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A bit of smoke is still rising from the approximately 12-acre wild fire southeast of Chehalis, and crews continue making progress extinguishing all of it.
Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015
“It’s completely lined and we consider it 100 percent contained at this point,” Chuck Turley, assistant manager of the Pacific Cascade Region of the state Department of Natural Resources said this morning
Firefighters from numerous agencies responded Tuesday afternoon to the blaze roughly a half mile north of the intersection of Centralia-Alpha Road and North Fork Road.
The cause is as-yet unknown, but crews put out fires twice last week on the same property.
Turley expected DNR personnel could be working three or even four more days on this.
“The vegetation is really thick,” he said. “It’s going to require people on the ground digging it out.”
Turley said that’s one difference between wild fires on the east side of the mountains and the west side of the mountains.
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For background, read “Chehalis area wildfire knocked down but not contained” from Wednesday August 5, 2015, here
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