DIAMOND POINT — Authorities are looking for tips on what might have caused a brush fire on Protection Island in eastern Clallam County.

The fire was spotted yesterday morning by a passing whale watching boat.

The lone person who serves as the caretaker on the island was off the island at the time of the fire.

The fire threw smoke into the air that was seen across the eastern portion of the north Olympic Peninsula.

The Department of Natural Resources and US Fish and Wildlife, which oversees the habitat protection area, are asking anyone that might have seen boat traffic or people on the beach there to contact them.

It’s the latest in a series of wildfires that have sprung up recently on the north Olympic Peninsula.  Over the weekend crews worked a 20-acre wildfire in Blyn and another smaller fire at a logging operation off Lost Mountain Road.

Last week, local fire districts were dispatched to several smaller fires near area roadways.

Fire officials say it’s a sign of the tinder dry conditions with grasses and brush that are easily igniting right now.