Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Dian Ver Valen: First Person
Dayton photographer Nick Page was on the scene to capture this shot of firefighters working to control the house fire that broke out in Dayton late Sunday night. The blaze destroyed two homes on East Washington Avenue.
Investigators are still searching for the cause of a fire late Sunday night that destroyed two homes on East Washington Avenue in Dayton.
"Honestly I don't know if we'll ever find out what started it," Fire Chief Rick Turner, of Columbia County Fire District 3, told me on Monday afternoon. "We're still working on it, but the fire completely destroyed the house, and any little bit of evidence there was is probably gone."
Nobody was injured in the fire, which started at 11:25 p.m. in an unoccupied, derelict home on the corner at 203 E. Washington Ave. That structure and the house next door, owne...
Reader Comments(0)