Fire crews, choppers hold wildfire to 35 acres in Contra Costa County
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An remote fire camera captures smoke from a vegetation fire on Kirker Pass Road and Nortonville Road in the Clayton area on Sunday, July 4, 2021.Alert Wildfire Network
Contra Costa County firefighters Sunday stopped the forward momentum of a 35-acre wildfire burning in oak wooodlands south of Pittsburg.
The blaze was touched off by a vehicle fire about 1:15 p.m., spreading in dry vegetation near near Kirker Pass and Nortonville roads, Cal Fire Assistant Chief George Huang said.
The first fire engines reported a three-acre blaze, but the fire burned quickly in the rolling oak woodlands near the community of Clayton.
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Firefighters extinguish vegetation fire near homes in Pittsburg
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This photo, provided by the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, shows white smoke rising from a vegetation fire burning along Kirker Pass Road in the area of Nortonville Road in Pittsburg on Thursday, April 29, 2021.
Firefighters extinguished a vegetation fire that burned near homes along Kirker Pass Road in the area of Nortonville Road in Pittsburg, officials said Thursday afternoon.
The fire, which Cal Fire’s Santa Clara Unit said was 5 acres shortly before 4:30 p.m., burned was near homes south of Buchanan Road, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.