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Fire crews, choppers hold wildfire to 35 acres in Contra Costa County
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An remote fire camera captures smoke from a vegetation fire on Kirker Pass Road and Nortonville Road in the Clayton area on Sunday, July 4, 2021.Alert Wildfire Network
Contra Costa County firefighters Sunday stopped the forward momentum of a 35-acre wildfire burning in oak wooodlands south of Pittsburg.
The blaze was touched off by a vehicle fire about 1:15 p.m., spreading in dry vegetation near near Kirker Pass and Nortonville roads, Cal Fire Assistant Chief George Huang said.
The first fire engines reported a three-acre blaze, but the fire burned quickly in the rolling oak woodlands near the community of Clayton.
Cal Fire extinguishes vegetation fire in Big Basin Redwoods State Park
By Kathleen Kirkwod article
A vegetation fire is seen on Alert Wildfire s Mt. Beilawski camera at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 2, 2021.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. - Firefighters stopped the forward progress of a 2-acre wildfire burning in Big Basin Redwoods State Park on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze, dubbed the Basin Fire, was reported about 12:11 p.m. Sunday near the Hihn Hammond Truck Trail, in a remote area that burned during last year s CZU Lightning Complex fires.
As of 3:30 p.m., the fire s progress had been halted but it wasn t yet contained, a Cal Fire spokesperson said.