The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON - Firefighters were called Wednesday night to yet another house fire here, this time just west of town off Highway 12 on Bowman Hill Road. The flames were visible beginning at about about 10 p.m. from the highway, and a train of passers-by stopped their vehicles along the road and at Longs Elevator to view the hilltop as the fire consumed this home. A large crew of fire trucks ringed the structure, preventing the flames from spreading into neighboring fields. This is the fourth home destroyed by fire in the Dayton community in the last three weeks. The county dump was seriously damaged by fire last Friday. Early reports from this scene are that the home was not occupied. Check back here and on our Facebook page for updates as we speak with officials in the coming days.