MILL CREEK — A teenager playing with a lighter sparked a brush fire that burned more than four acres in a power line right-of-way in the Silver Firs neighborhood east of here Monday afternoon. No one was injured.
The fire was contained to brush south from the Whistle Stop mini-mart in the 5600 block of 134th Place SE to about 137th Street SE.
People living nearby reported flames up to 20 feet high behind their homes, said Leslie Hynes, a spokeswoman for Snohomish County Fire District 1. Snohomish County Fire District 7 crews also responded.
Firefighters had the flames under control within 30 minutes.
“The wind was coming from the south and pushing the fire north,” Hynes said. “We had firefighters attacking the flames from neighborhoods on the east and west side of the right-of-way and on the north from an access road behind the Whistle Stop. This kept the fire from reaching homes along the right-of-way.”
An investigator from the Snohomish County Fire Marshal’s Office interviewed a teenage boy who admitted he had been playing with a lighter in the right-of-way.
The power poles and lines were not damaged.
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