Up in flames

A Yakima family was returning home after visiting La Conner when their travel trailer caught fire on Sunday.

Here it is shown fully involved in flame in the Rexville Grocery parking lot.

Rexville owner Brian Dean filed a news report from the scene: “After shutting down the gas pumps, I tried to extinguish the fire before it became fully engulfed but was forced to back off after inhaling thick toxic fumes and heat,” Dean wrote.

The mishap occurred at about 3:30 p.m.

and there were no life-threatening injuries, Dean reported, although one member of the family required emergency room treatment for cuts on her arm.

Skagit County Sheriff’s Deputies and Fire District 2 firefighters responded but the trailer was completely destroyed before the fire could be extinguished.

― Photo by DeAnna Young