Fire Burns On Mount Diablo Friday

May 21, 2021|NEWS24-680||Police/Fire

A slow-moving, 5-acre grass fire has been spotted burning on Mount Diablo. A full vegetation fire response was mobilized to put down the blaze.

The fire was reported at approximately 2:49 a.m. in the area of S. Gate Road and Mt. Diablo Scenic. Crews on the scene reported fire on the uphill side of the road with a slow rate of spread in steep terrain.

Crews reported that they had halted the fire’s forward progress at approximately 4 a.m.

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PatMac on May 21, 2021 at 8:58 am

Any info on how this fire started? Thx.

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- NEWS24-680 on May 21, 2021 at 9:00 am
  
  None that we’ve gotten thus far, PatMac – at first we were looking for a possible lightning strike, then a possible transient camp… but we’ve gotten no official word on cause.
  
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Siobhan Hunter-Maartz on May 21, 2021 at 9:50 am

Thanks for the alert – we smelled the smoke!!

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- NEWS24-680 on May 21, 2021 at 9:51 am
  
  Certainly. Not too early?
  
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Tony on May 21, 2021 at 10:51 am

Its going to be a long season.

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Tierza Prentiss on May 21, 2021 at 3:05 pm

Nice job SRV firefighters!!!

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Danielle on May 21, 2021 at 5:37 pm

No more of these pllease

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- NEWS24-680 on May 21, 2021 at 5:38 pm
  
  We’ll try but we can’t promise anything…
  
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Greg T on May 21, 2021 at 6:25 pm

I also think they were lucky that we got 10 minutes of rain right in that area yesterday.
I’m sure that helped dampen things a bit.

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