A robust confluence of firefighting and law enforcement resources is being credited with putting down a structure fire on a remote section of Lake Pend Oreille waterfront on Thursday.
There were no injuries.
Selkirk Fire Rescue & EMS firefighter were dispatched to a structure fire at Garfield Bay that began with a shed catching fire. The conflagration then spread to an occupied cabin and the forest surrounding the buildings, said Selkirk Chief Ron Stocking. The fire was reported shortly after 11 a.m. on Bozo Boulevard, which lies at the end of West Garfield Bay Road.
“When firefighters got on the scene, there was a lot of fire and not a whole lot of firefighters,” Stocking said.
But reinforcements came from Northside and Sam Owen fire districts, in addition to the Idaho Department of Lands and Bonner County Sheriff’s Office.