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Close
call at Lily Point...
A visitor
from British Columbia who started a brush fire at Lily Point
burning personal financial documents was quick to reimburse
the fire department for putting it out.
At the September13
meeting of Whatcom County Fire District 5 chief Bill Skinner
reported the district had received a $260 payment to cover
the cost of personnel it took to extinguish the fire. “He
admitted to starting it and doing something very foolish,” Skinner
said of the man who started the blaze. “Here is someone
who took the trouble to tote their documents from Canada
to burn them at Lily Point.”
The August
25 fire was reported to the fire department just after 4 p.m.
on August 25. “It started down in the flats where
the cannery used to be,” Skinner said. “It probably
burned about three acres of grass and brush but none of the
trees.”
Therese
Bagshaw said she was among the residents and visitors who discovered
the fire and worked to contain it until the fire department
arrived. “At times it
seemed like the fire would win, we didn’t have much
chance pouring water bottle by water bottle onto the blaze,
but we continued to do so for over an hour,” she said.
Bagshaw said a family from Crystal Water deserved credit
for keeping the fire from spreading up the bluff, stomping
it out to keep it from crossing the path. “They
are really local heros,” she said.
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