Beach fire ember torches next door building on Snee Oosh

An ember believed windblown from remains of a fire left smoldering in a beach fireplace set fire to vegetation and a corner of a neighboring property building at 15796 Snee Oosh Road early Saturday morning, July 30.

Sarah Chase woke up around 3 a.m., telling her partner, Dieter Drews, she smelled smoke, thinking it was down on the beach. It was much closer: the back corner of their “rec room,” a free standing one-story building abutting the property line was in flames, and some of their wooden fence and ivy on two Douglas fir trees at 15770 Snee Oosh Road next door caught fire.

Chase called 91...