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Redding firefighters extinguished a fire that burned a fifth-wheel travel trailer in the Turtle Bay Mobile Home & RV Park off North Market Street on Friday morning.
The fire department received the call just before 11 a.m. Friday. The fire threatened nearby trailers before firefighters got the blaze under control within 10 minutes. It appears to have been an electrical malfunction, Assistant Fire Marshal Ryan Masterson said. Crews did a good job. They contained it to the rear of the trailer.
Masterson said the trailer s two occupants got out OK and there were no injuries to them or firefighters.
The Red Cross was being contacted to help the residents get a place to stay as the fire destroyed the trailer.
Goats help with fuels reduction in Redding
The City of Redding is using goats to cut down on wildfire fuels.
Posted: Jul 15, 2021 6:23 PM
Updated: Jul 16, 2021 10:17 AM
Posted By: Ana Torrea
REDDING, Calif. - The City of Redding is looking to an unusual workforce to cut down on wildfire fuels.
People might have seen a herd of goats hard at work in spots within Redding, chomping away at some dry grass. It’s the Goat Task Force hard at work.
“What the goats do is they take care of those light flashy fuels,” Redding Fire Marshal Craig Wittner said. “They graze the grasses and the weeds on the ground but they also limb up the bushes and trees, up to about 6 feet. So when we do get a fire on the ground, hopefully, it stays on the ground and doesn t get up into the latter fuels.”
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LOUDONVILLE A record turnout estimated at around 700 vehicles packed downtown streets Saturday at the 21st Loudonville Car Show.
“We had well over 400 registered with vehicles still coming in,” Valerie Spreng, executive director of the sponsoring Loudonville-Mohican Chamber of Commerce, said about 10:30 a.m. Saturday, “and our guess is that well over 200 cars are here that did not register.”
Spreng also said that “cars were parked clear to the fire house on North Market Street, down Wood Street to Bustle Street, in the Budd School parking lot, and filling the parking lot at the Snyder Funeral Home, more today than I can remember ever.”