Firefighters from three cities moved quickly to extinguish a brush fire in the 13300 block of 242nd Avenue Northeast on Tuesday afternoon before the blaze could cause significant structural damage.

The fire, which burned around one-half acre of pasture, was reported at 1:24 p.m.

Lynn Cash lives on the property and said she and her family were gone when it started.

“Thank God for them, whoever called it in,” Cash said as she sprayed ash from a concrete walkway that the fire had burned up to.

David Weed, public information officer for the Woodinville Fire Department, said the green grass that abutted the dry field prevented the fire from spreading further toward the house.

The fire was knocked down by around 2:30 p.m. and was contained before it damaged the two honey bee hives on the property, but quick action kept the fire from spreading farther.

Two miniature donkeys were also on the property in a pen and broke out during the fire. Cash said they had both been recovered.

A lack of rain in the past month has led to dry conditions, which isn’t as common in Western Washington as it is on the fire-prone eastern side of the state.

“The grasses and brushes are drying out, so it doesn’t take much to get something started,” he said.

The cause of the fire is unknown as investigators work to determine what started the blaze.

Firefighters from the Woodinville, Redmond and Duvall fire departments all responded to the fire with at least three water tenders and three fire engines at the scene.

Weed said the house and property are located directly on the intersection of all three jurisdictions, with portions in Redmond, Duvall and Woodinville.

The government website InciWeb currently lists seven active forest fires in Washington state, with the largest, the Snake River Fire, scorching some 3,100 acres at the junction of Idaho, Washington and Oregon.