Just after 6:00 pm Friday, Contra Costa County firefighters were dispatched to a report of a vegetation fire along the trail on Indian Hill Way.
Upon arrival, Contra Costa Fire upgraded the response to a full vegetation fire after large brush was on fire shooting flames high into the air. Shortly after, a second-alarm was requested after homes were threatened.
By 6:30 pm, a third alarm fire was requested after several additional structures were 
threatened with signs of 1 home on fire and several others with roofs with possible flames on them.
By 6:45 pm, it was being reported by STAR3 in the air that homes on Wagon Wheel Way possibly had flames on the roof with firefighters spraying down multiple roofs in the area.
Units from as far as San Ramon were moving to East Contra Costa to cover stations with CALFIRE also being moved up. Antioch Police have multiple roads closed in the area while fire crews work the area.
By 7:00 pm, the fire was under control.
Update:
Per Contra Costa County Fire, the total damage was $20,000 to structures after two roofs were damaged during a 1/2 acre vegetation fire caused by illegal fireworks.
Photos on the trail by Myk Mills
3 comments
Police don’t come when called about illegal fireworks in the neighborhood. Or they come 5-6 hours later. This is the consequence of not enforcing this law. The ghetto people believe “errhthang’s sal good” when it comes to doing illegal activities in Antioch.
It’s the city where the criminals are protected and the garbage elected (except for Ogorchock).
Yes, because only ghetto people set off fireworks, right RJB? None of those law-abiding, upper classmen, well-to-do folk would ever do such a thing, right Relentless Jabbering Bigot?
Your persistence on pinning everything on the “ghetto people” of Antioch is not only annoying and inaccurate, but very unoriginal. It might be a good time to take your head out of Glenn Beck’s sphincter and take a breath for once ??
Say Joe, Say it isn’t so, before the ghetto people were trailer trash. They didn’t shoot people, steal, create havoc. Only the ghetto people have ruined this city. For Gods sake clean up after yourselves and stop killing and robbing people. That is what’s annoying.
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