One person was injured after a homeless encampment caught fire Tuesday morning in Hazel Dell.
Clark County Fire District 6 responded to the fire at 8:43 a.m. in a wooded area located between Northeast Highway 99 and Interstate 5, west of the Bonneville Power Administration’s Ross Complex. The agency said the fire appeared to have started in a large homeless encampment and spread quickly to trees and other debris.
The fire district said one person suffered injuries that were not life-threatening. No firefighters were injured.
“When conditions are drier this small fire could morph into a large problem,” the fire district said in a Facebook post.
Fire District 6 did not have information on the cause of the fire.
