By Dian Ver Valen
The Times
Columbia County Plagued with Fires
Investigators continue to seek answers after fires destroy four area homes and co. dump
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Firefighters from throughout Columbia and Walla Walla Counties were called in on the evening of July 22 to fight the fire at the recently constructed new home of Daryl and LaRhonda McCauley on Bowman Hill Road, west of Dayton.
DAYTON – Fires are on just about everyone's mind right now. In Columbia County, investigators are struggling to reach conclusions regarding five fires in the last four weeks.
"We're just swamped with this," County Fire Marshal Kim Lyonnais said.
Many of these officials also have their hands full giving aid to firefighters battling the Blue Creek Fire, which has consumed over 6,000 acres of land and one home in Walla Walla County (see story on Page 10).
The series of local fires began on the last weekend in June, with a fire that started in a derelict home on East Washington Avenue in Da...
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