On Wednesday morning, a fire ignited in Selah threatened several structures along a ridge. Residents of Selah are used to the hill near Wixson park having a small brush fire every few years, but on Wednesday, there was nothing small about it. It was a pretty typical morning until the fire started at around 9:00 in the morning. “I messed around with my motorcycle a little bit, went to Goodwill to get some shoes and I saw the fire,” said Marlon Lincoln.
โI was bringing my daughter back home from her dentist appointment, down the hill I saw that the hill was burned, and it wasnโt burned when we left,” said Larissa Bjurlin, a Selah resident for the past 16 years. “It looked like it caught from the bottom and worked itโs way up, and then we saw the fence engulfed, and then the house was just gone within seconds.โ Lincoln started to fight the fire before the firefighters were on the scene.
โI drove over here, and I asked a neighbor if they had a shovel I could use,” Lincoln said. “He kind of laughed at me and I said Iโm serious. I grabbed a shovel, and I went to work.โ Before long, he had company, in the form of Kasidy Farris. โYou donโt go into the fire alone. You always have to stick around with somebody. I saw him up there, and I could at least try,” Farris said.
