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Morgan Territory Vegetation Fire Hits 800 Acres, 250 Firefighters on Scene

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Here is a quick update on the Morgan Territory Vegetation Fire as its now hit 800 acres burned and is just 10-percent contained. A total of 250 firefighters are expected to remain on scene overnight to battle the blaze as the incident is threatening 50-75 homes.

The fire was originally reported as just  a 1/2 acre spot fire with slow spread at roughly at 1:07 pm.  It quickly moved spread over several hours and is now being reported small spot fires are burning at the top of Mt. Diablo due to embers from the blaze.

East Contra Costa, Cal Fire, Contra Costa and East Bay Regional Park District firefighters are on scene. The incident has prompted East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, who have all five stations on the blaze, to call in off-duty firefighters to back-fill stations in Brentwood, Discovery Bay and Oakley.

An immediate evacuation was ordered at 4:50 pm for Oak Hill Ln at Curry Canyon and Curry Pt where an evacuation center moved to Clayton Library.

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7 comments

Julio Sep 8, 2013 - 8:04 pm

Great reporting Mike and all you photographers! Fire fighters be safe!

Sara G Sep 8, 2013 - 8:17 pm

I only get my news from you and Claycord. You both provide me with all I need and its up to date. Thank you for a job well done.

Edward Antrim Sep 8, 2013 - 8:20 pm

You wouldn’t happen to have old footage of the 1978 or 79 fire on Mt Diablo started by lighting?

Jordan Sep 8, 2013 - 9:43 pm

So you ask, how does a small 1/2 acre fire grow quickly to 800 acres? If you hit a fire hard in the beginning with many engines the fire is quickly snuffed out. Unfortunately the powers to be have determined that staffing fire stations is not a priority and Station 11 Clayton is not staffed, and East County has less staffing, less Fire Units = larger fires. Sure Cal Fire will call in resources from all over California, but that takes time, and fires grow with time.
Firefighters will be on scene for days to come, this is not going away quickly.
To all of you Tea Baggers, remember that Con Fire and East County Fire combined account for less than 5% of the total county budget.

Tim Sep 8, 2013 - 10:03 pm

Jordan,

I agree with the spirt of your post but it is a bit misleading.

1). The “powers that be” which closed fire stations and determined the current staffing are the voters=taxpayers of the county. It is property tax money in to both districts that determine the level of service.

2). Con Fire and East county fire account for ZERO of contra costa’s budget. They are both independent districts and account for none of the general fund. They do however account for 100 percent of their respective individual, separate and dedicated budgets.

Neither has anything to do with the county budget. It’s time to put that misconception to rest.

daddy Sep 8, 2013 - 10:30 pm

Damn section 8.

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