Tree, fencing, wires torched in Coeur d'Alene blaze
Diane Ross of Coeur d'Alene, standing Friday in her neighbor's yard, looks up at the damage caused by a fire that leapt onto a wooden fence and caused damage to both of their properties before it was reported Wednesday.
DEVIN WEEKS/Press
A tree in the southeastern corner of Diane Ross' Coeur d'Alene backyard caught fire Wednesday, most likely caused by a fire from an adjacent firepit that was left unattended before it was completely out. A passerby saw smoke and called the fire department.
COEUR d'ALENE — Fencing was torched, a tree was burned, and telephone and internet wires melted Wednesday by the time someone alerted Diane Ross about the fire happening in the far corner of her backyard.
"I was working," Ross said Friday. "I didn't see a thing."
Around 1:30 p.m., Ross looked out the front window of her home on Fifth Street just north of Hazel Avenue to see someone wearing a Coeur d'Alene Fire Department shirt walking in her front yard and looking toward the back.
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