Grassfire Burns 300 Acres Near Columbia Hills State Park

Firefighters have fully contained a 300 acre grass fire that burned east of the intersection of Highways 197 and 14 in Klickitat County on Thursday evening.  Darren Lacock of the Dallesport-Murdock Fire Department says the fire burned a travel trailer and a shed.  The fire started around 6 p.m. Thursday when a flatbed truck towing a trailer lost its right side wheels, and the sparks from the metal axel cause the blaze to start.  The fire burned down to the road leading into Columbia Hills State Park.  Lacock says some hot spots in the middle of the fire where terrain makes it difficult to extinguish will burn until there is a significant rainfall, but there is a full containment line around the fire.  Ten Klickitat County fire departments along with the Washington Department of Natural Resources, Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue, and Washington State Parks were involved in the firefighting effort.

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