Control burn rekindles, burning hillside
MARY CALLAHAN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT - Article
April 10, 2008
A control burn set a full day earlier to clear vegetation from a Guerneville construction site rekindled Wednesday, blackening three acres of a hillside above town, fire officials said.
No structures were threatened in the fire, though several homes are in the area near the end of Watson Road where the fire occurred, Russian River Fire Capt. Rob Cassady said.
The property owner later told fire crews he checked on the site off Armstrong Woods Road earlier Wednesday and didn’t notice anything unusual, Cassady said.
He then went to town and carried on with his business before realizing around 2 p.m. that fire engines were headed up the hill, where smoke had become visible, Cassady said.
“The wind picked up on the ridge, and it must have rekindled a hot spot or something,” Cassady said.
Fire crews from the Russian River, Forestville and Monte Rio fire departments, as well as the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Calfire, worked to fight the fire in what Cassady described as “pretty steep terrain.”
Two inmate hand crews also helped put out the fire, he said.
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