A boater rescued campers who were stranded on the shore of a lake while the Cape Horn Fire was burning close to their camp site. The campers appeared to have a boat in their small cove that was partially submerged in Lake Pend Oreille. Near the beginning of the video you can hear a voice saying, “hey those people are waving to us.”
The people in the boat from which the video was shot were considering going in to rescue the individuals, and shouted “You’ll have to leave your stuff!”, but later another boat arrived that picked up the campers.
These photos are screen grabs from the video that was uploaded to YouTube by John Stenberg on June 6.
The 1,380-acre Cape Horn Fire in northern Idaho has destroyed six homes and two outbuildings. The incident management team reports that a fireline has been established around “much of the fire”, however some evacuations are still in effect.
The Tweet below is from a reporter, and includes some good photos of the fire. Click on them to see larger versions.
Road going into Bayview blocked except for emergency crew & residents #CapehornFire pic.twitter.com/M8SShLZCM9
— Frances Wang (@KREMFrances) July 6, 2015
