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News brief: Timberland fires still burning near Glenoma, Littlerock

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

The wildfire at Dog Mountain in eastern Lewis County isn’t expected to be fully contained until weekend because the terrain is very, very steep, a spokesperson for the state Department of Natural Resources said this afternoon.

Crews have been battling the fire since it was reported on Saturday [1] afternoon, south of Glenoma on property owned by Port Blakley.

Janet Pearce, the communications manager for the state agency, indicated it is covering 160 acres of but is 60 percent contained.

The expected morning weather is encouraging, according to Pearce.

The fire was one of two large ones that broke out this weekend on area timberland.

The brush fire in the Capitol Forest about eight miles northwest of Littlerock, should be fully contained tomorrow, Pearce said.

The blaze, dubbed the C-Line Fire was 70 percent contained this afternoon and had burned 80 acres, according to Pearce.

West Thurston Regional Fire Authority sent four people there today to assist. The Rochester-Littlerock fire department was the agency that first responded [2] to the fire about 12:15 a.m. on Sunday.

Chief Robert Scott said today it was called in by several people and crews found two bonfires had spread from a gravel pit about three miles south of Capitol Peak, in a common area for “kid parties.”

“Everybody had scattered,” Scott said.

He called it an “off the grid” destination for underage drinking parties

It’s about twice as windy at that roughly 1,000-foot elevation as down below, and embers had blown around, Scott said.

The investigation into the cause is being conducted by DNR, but the bon fires are the point of origin, Scott said.