A stubborn wildfire at Lake Crescent may take longer to extinguish than previously expected, a spokesman for the team managing firefighting efforts said Saturday.
The East Beach Road Fire, believed to be human-caused, stood at 65 acres on a steep slope above East Beach Road on the north side of the lake in Olympic National Park land. As of Saturday morning, it was listed as 15 percent contained.
Nick Cronquist, public information officer for the Western Washington Type 3 Incident Management Team, which is coordinating firefighting efforts, said terrain is hindering fire suppression. “Due to the steepness and the grade, it’s going to be a longer fire than I think a lot of people expected,” he said from a command center and fire camp set up at Crescent School in nearby Joyce.