Looking north from the Cascade Peaks Campground. / Courtesy photo by Robin Hylton
Updated at 4:35 p.m.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Crews are on the scene this morning improving fire lines in the Carr Road area between Randle and Packwood.
No structures have been damaged, none are threatened and nobody has been injured, according to Lewis County Fire District 14.
Firefighters from Randle, Packwood and the state Department of Natural Resources were fighting what was described early yesterday evening as a five-plus-acre brush fire.
Photos and video shared by observers showed a helicopter making water drops yesterday.
Fire Chief Jeff Jaques said it was mostly brush and stumps in a clear cut area about one mile up from U.S. Highway 12. He believed it ended up covering about 10 acres.
“It got into the trees a little bit,” he said.
Crews are in the mop up stage now, Jaques said just before 1 p.m. today. The fire was reported just after 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
The Board of (Lewis) County Commissioners put outdoor burning restrictions in place nine days ago due to the current and extended weather forecast and substantial fire dangers.
Meanwhile, the cause of a fire that destroyed a Randle residence several miles to the west over the weekend remains under investigation.
Firefighters responding to approximately 3:10 a.m. call on Sunday on the 600 block of Silverbrook Road found a double-wide mobile home and adjacent shop building fully involved in flames, according to Jaques.
Nobody was home as it turns out but they couldn’t be sure, spending a lot of time checking, said Fire Investigator Derrick Paul.
Paul said he understood a family consisting of seven people, five of them children, lived there.
There were two cars inside the shop that were destroyed as well, he said.
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Bringing water to the Carr Road fire. / Courtesy photo by Lewis County Fire District 14
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