One person injured as several hundred feet of train trestle burns in Snohomish
May 12, 2026, 6:50 AM | Updated: 3:02 pm
Approximately 300 feet of train trestle is burning after a large fire broke out early Tuesday morning, forcing the closure of Airport Way in Snohomish for several hours.
The fire was near Harvey Airfield in Snohomish.
“Basically, there was fire from the ground level all the way to the top of the area where the trestle tracks are,” Snohomish Fire District 4 Fire Marshal DJ Hill said. “And that’s probably, give or take, 40 or 50 feet elevation from ground to where the top of the trestle is.”
One person suffered minor burns to their hands and was transferred to Providence Hospital in Everett, firefighters with Snohomish Fire District 4 told KIRO Newsradio.
The fire has since been controlled and extinguished. Airport Way additionally reopened to the public later Tuesday morning.
The Snohomish County fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.
“[The fire] was well involved in the wooded area between the corner where the airport road bends around the airport, to basically the river,” Hill added.
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