Firefighters followed the smell of smoke to find a small brush fire on Tumwater Creek.
It took 45 minutes for Clallam County Fire District No. 2 firefighters and volunteers to find the source of the smoke reported by two people in the area south of U.S. Highway 101 near Tumwater Truck Route beginning at 4:08 p.m. Monday, Deputy Chief Jake Patterson said in a news release issued Tuesday. Several Fire District No. 2 units were staged near the site of the old Haggen grocery store at 114 E. Lauridsen Blvd. until the fire could be found.
Eventually, firefighters found a blaze of about 75 feet by 30 feet burning in the brush along Tumwater Creek, Patterson said.
“It was slow-moving except for occasional bushes which would torch and burn rapidly,” Patterson said.