Fire Fighting personnel in the Windermere area are reminding people to ensure they are burning safely after the Windermere Fire Department responded to a grass fire just south of town on April 2, 2024.
“A private property owner was burning grass and it got away on them,” says Columbia Valley Rural Fire & Rescue Chief Drew Sinclair. “When we arrived on scene, the fire had moved into a stacked wood pile and our firefighters did a good job of containing it quickly and preventing what could have been a much more serious situation.