A small brush fire scorched a hillside beside Hazel Dell Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters from the Vancouver Fire Department and Clark County Fire District 6 were called to the 5600 block of Northeast Hazel Dell Avenue around 3:30, and found a fire had kicked up in the vegetation along the east side of the roadway.
There are some structures atop the hill, but District 6 spokesman David Shmitke said the fire didn’t get threateningly close.
“That’s just down the road from us. If you’re going to have a brush fire, have one there,” he said. District 6’s Station 1 is about a mile north of the fire.
Firefighters arrived quickly and were able to wet down the blaze. He said they had the fire mostly under control within a few minutes.
