45-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County Has Been Contained
The grass fire near the Benicia Bridge — which was first reported today at 10:28 a.m.— was successfully contained by CalFire crews Saturday afternoon; no structures were damaged by the blaze.
North Bay, the East Bay hills, and the East Bay interior valleys are all currently in a Red Flag Warning until at least Monday at 6.am. — a first in since 2013. (While the Bay Area is no stranger to these National Weather Service [NWS]-issued warnings, they usually occur later in the year, beginning around June or July.) A particularly dangerous combination of strong north to northeast winds, low humidity, and high temperatures have combined to create potentially dangerous conditions throughout much of the region.