20 Acre Brush Fire Allowed To Burn Near Bay Point; 3rd Recent Fire In Same Location
BAY POINT (CBS SF) -- Firefighters allowed a small brush fire to consume roughly 20 acres of vegetation on Wednesday after responding to the same location near Bay Point for the third time in recent weeks, a fire official said Thursday.
Fire crews responded around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to a report of a brush fire off Evora Road between Willow Pass Road and Driftwood Drive, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District Fire Marshal Robert Marshall said.
Marshall said woodchips, gardening materials and other organic yard waste dumped in the area provided fodder for a 2- to 3-acre fire on Monday.
That material likely reignited Wednesday, sparking the blaze, Marshall said.
"There were really high winds, which then caused that fire to flare up and spread," Marshall said.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire within roughly 30 minutes, but allowed the fire to burn a larger swath of land because Marshall said they wanted to make sure it wouldn't reignite again.
"We didn't have a high degree of confidence that we could extinguish the fire fully ... so we let the unburned materials burn," Marshall said.
No injuries were reported, he said.
Firefighters also extinguished a two-alarm fire on July 7 that burned 35 acres near United Sportsmen Inc., a gun club and shooting range in the 4700 block of Evora Road.
Marshall said fire inspectors determined activity at the gun range caused that fire.
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