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Wash. Authorities Investigate Beaver Lodge Fire

June 17--ORONDO -- Fire officials say they think a fire in a beaver dam at Daroga State Park was human-caused. "There were no other sources of ignition in the area," said Jim Oatey, chief of Douglas County Fire District 4 at Orondo. He said he thinks fire crews stopped the fire before it reached the beavers inside. The fire was reported at 12:21 p.m. Sunday. Oatey said responding crews found flames erupting from the roof of the beaver lodge, which was on the banks of the Columbia...

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Wash. Authorities Investigate Beaver Lodge Fire

Orondo fire officials believe humans caused a fire that destroyed a beaver lodge on the banks of the Columbia River. The beavers were thought to have survived.

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