By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
As many as 50 firefighters responded to a barn and wildfire that grew to as much as four acres today in the Curtis-Boistfort area.
Lewis County Fire District 13 was called about 1:20 p.m. to the blaze at the end of Hubbard Road.
The barn burned to the ground and the fire at one point threatened the house, District 5 Chief Eric Linn said.
Twenty-five to 30 personnel from the state Department of Natural Resources joined firefighters from Chehalis, Centralia and Napavine, Linn said.
The flames got into grass, slash and trees, he said.
Local firefighters spent about five hours at the scene, leaving DNR out there around 6 p.m., according to Linn.
“We had some pretty significant concerns if we wouldn’t have been able to stop it at the ridge, it would have been quite an event,” he said.
Nobody was injured. Linn didn’t yet have a cause for the fire.
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