In this photo, Port Angeles firefighter Pete Sekac, left, and Lt. Jake Patterson watch as flames devour a small tree while a pumper truck sprinkles water from above on a fire that burned a 50-by-50 foot area of heavy brush in a field just west of Stevens Middle School in Port Angeles on Tuesday.
No structures were threatened by the blaze, but red-flag warnings for dry conditions across much of the Pacific Northwest left several nearby residents uneasy about the proximity of the fire.
Firefighters took several hours to quench the blaze. The cause remained under investigation.
