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.
Any info on how this fire started? Thx.
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.
Thanks for the alert – we smelled the smoke!!
Certainly. Not too early?
Its going to be a long season.
Nice job SRV firefighters!!!
No more of these pllease
We’ll try but we can’t promise anything…
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.