Bill & Marianne Love shot photos of Bayview Monday. Marianne reports on her Slight Detour blog:

"We walked around Bayview.  We visited with some Idaho Dept. of Lands fire team members, who suggested they kidnap Bill to help them do their planning. The dramatic images appeared near the docks where float houses and sailboats colorfully dominate the scene next to the small village on the south end of Lake Pend Oreille. Police cars aplenty at key intersections, people standing in their yards or sitting on their porches with faces pointed east, sprinklers spewing water at virtually every residence AND on the dock gave a clear indication that this was not your usual summer night in Bayview.

"In one case, down at the docks, I met Ben and Angela Tuttle, a very nice couple who manage the Bitter End Marina.  The marina deck near the docks provided them a front-row seat to the action on the water, up the mountain side and in the air above. Chain saws could be heard on the mountain, up there in all that smoke.  I was thinking that the scene there was hardly paradise to whoever was up there working. A steady siege of overhead planes and helicopters, toting buckets for dipping water from the lake, indicated an all-out assault had been underway to stop the various paths of a quickly spreading fire which had first been announced as 20 acres and soon increased to 500. This morning's latest report is 600 with half a dozen structures (of unknown classification) destroyed. Word on the street was that the fire may have started from a campfire down on the beach, but that was word on the street.

"We'll eventually know the true origin, but for now halting the fire and making sure people and animals were safe took precedent."