Before noon Tuesday, a wildfire exploded on Cordelia's Nelson Hill, challenging firefighters who eventually contained the blaze.
"It was quickly moving, wind driven, got to be very large very quickly," said Cordelia Fire Chief Dave Carpenter. "We whipped it up to four alarms plus we got Cal Fire. So we hit it hard and aggressive.""He's in the hospital now with a back injury," he added.Confire, the large East Bay fire agency for Contra Costa County, shared numbers.
First and foremost, Mother Nature played a big role with cooler, more humid weather, and not so much wind in the immediate Bay Area. The second likely main reason fire numbers were down has to do with a clear lack of supply of fireworks, legal and illegal. We got our first hint of this on June 29, the day fireworks stands opened up in Dublin.
The big worry now? People using their fireworks leftovers, especially as heat and dryness comes back this week.
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