A fire at a cabin in Birch Bay left a man and a woman with burns, smoke inhalation and other injuries early Friday, when they tried to rescue their dogs from the flames, according to fire officials.
The couple, in their 40s, awoke to the smell of smoke around 1:45 a.m. in their one-story cabin at 8112 Birch Bay Drive in The Idlesse Condominiums, along the shore of Birch Bay, said Mitch Nolze, an investigator with the Whatcom County Fire Marshal’s Office.
They escaped the cabin, No. 25, but suffered cuts, smoke inhalation and significant burns when they tried to rescue their dogs. North Whatcom firefighters battled flames that spread to a two-story community building next-door. Crews from Lynden and Ferndale were called in to help extinguish the fires.