Brush fire behind Coast Guard Station Newport
8:25pm
Brush fire reported behind 925 SW Naterlin Drive, north side behind the Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay
No trees or structures at risk
Caller is reporting from bridge
8:26pm
Fire units on scene asking for a brush rig and more firefighters. Fire is getting in to the trees along the cliffs, west of of the Coast Guard Station.
8:27pm
Fire Chief Rob Murphy is enroute to the fire station to pick up the brush rig. He’ll have three firefighters aboard it.
8:29pm
The brush fire is 20′ x 15′ and the fire sparks have ignited a fire in the trees overhead. The area where the fire started is a transient camp where a campfire was burning. Chairs and supplies in the immediately vicinity.
11pm
Fires are out.
