Phil Stephan and Patti Bolstad believe they might have been able to prevent the Cape Horn Fire if they had just acted mere hours earlier. “It’s one of those hindsight kind of things,” Bolstad said, as she explained how she and Stephan believe the fire got started. “But what can you do about it now?” Stephan, who manages all but two of the eight marinas in Bayview, said he and Bolstad were approached by Timberlake Fire personnel on Sunday about 10 a.m. in the morning — roughly two and half hours before the fire erupted. “They said another boater spotted a couple of people who were stranded on a beach around the cape,” Stephan said. “They asked us if we could go and pick them up because technically the beach was in Bonner County.” Bolstad said they were told the people were fine, but their boat had been swamped by large waves stirred by Sunday’s wind storm. “We had a couple of hours before we could head over there,” she said, with Stephan adding that had they just gone and picked up the people at that time, the fire might not have started/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here. (Courtesy photo via Coeur d'Alene Press: This photo was taken by Phil Stephan and Patti Bolstad, of Bayview, on Sunday just after the fire started and moments after two stranded boaters were rescued from the beach)