Local firefighters managed to save about a dozen homes that were threatened by a brush fire in Prosser last night before reinforcements arrived, a fire spokesman said.
Only a barn was lost as the South Ward Gap fire burned somewhere between 6,000 to 8,000 acres on Sunday, said Marcus Deyerin with the Northwest Washington Incident Management Team on Monday morning.
“For 12 individuals, they did a really remarkable job... I saw at least a dozen homes where the fire had burned all the way up to the foundation and that none of those homes were lost is really remarkable,” Deyerin said. About 75 firefighters from around the state are doing containment and clean-up work today, replacing the local firefighters who worked to save the homes on Sunday.
“We’re pretty lucky today that it’s at the low end of the actively burning spectrum and we’re focused on taking advantage of the low winds and lower temperatures to get ahead of it,” Deyerin said.