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.

Source The Wenatchee World, Wash.

June 17, 2013

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 River.

-- Dee Riggs, World staff