CHIMACUM — A garage fire on Anderson Lake Road was quickly extinguished Tuesday afternoon.
No one was hurt in the 3:26 p.m. fire in the approximately 25-foot-by-40-foot building in the 2000 block of Anderson Lake Road.
Firefighters arrived two minutes later, and East Jefferson Fire-Rescue Chief Gordon Pomeroy declared the fire to be controlled 15 minutes later.
The metal structure and much of its contents were saved, said fire department spokesman Bill Beezley, although the building did suffer smoke damage and fire damage to two walls and a loft.
The property owner’s cousin said he had used a wood-burning stove in the garage while he worked on a 1936 Dodge Coupe earlier in the day, while the owner was at work in Belfair, Beezley said.
The cousin said that he left at about noon to drive into Port Townsend.
The cause of the fire is under investigation but is not considered suspicious, Beezley said.
Also responding to the fire were Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue firefighters and the Engine 91 crew from Indian Island, Beezley said.
