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3-Alarm Landfill Fire Contained In Vacaville

VACAVILLE (CBS SF) -- A three-alarm fire at a landfill in Vacaville has been contained Sunday afternoon, Dixon Fire Department fire Chief Greg Lewis said.

So far the fire has burned only compost and about two acres of grass and had been contained by 4:15 p.m. at B & J Landfill at 6426 Hay Road.

The landfill is about eight miles south of Dixon near state Highway 113.

The first report of the fire came in at around 2:30 p.m., Lewis said. He said it will probably be 6:15 p.m. or 7:15 p.m. before the fire is extinguished.

No one has been injured and no structures damaged or threatened.

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