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At 3:43 pm Tuesday afternoon, East Contra Costa Fire Protection District and Contra Costa Fire Protection District crews responded to a vegetation fire on Bridghead Road in Oakley. The incident burned nearly a quarter acre before crews successfully put out the fire with no damages or injuries reported.
The fire came close to a trailer park nearby, but no structures were seriously threatened in the vegetation fire as crews were on scene for less than an hour. Here are some photographs from the incident.
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I have noticed that there are a large number of empty lots that are overgrown with dried out weeds all over East Contra Costa. There seems to be no effort by anyone to reduce the fire danger–where are the plowed fire breaks? I drove down Garin Parkway and the weeds along the road are 3-4 ft high between Sycamore and Sunset. Sand Creek has the same issue between Brentwood Blvd and Garin Parkway. Corner of Laurel Rd, Corner of Bernard, I could go on and on. I drove out to Sandmound a few weeks ago. The area that had a large grass fire is yet again over grown and ready to burn again. And that area has the added danger of peat. I was driving down the Bypass, getting off at Lone Tree and noticed that the houses on the hills, the grass was right up to the fences. Why isn’t anyone demanding that the fire breaks be plowed and clearing the grass from their fences? After a fire starts its too late.
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