Cal Fire began a prescribed burn alongside Interstate 80 in Vacaville on 26 May, but after breezes shifted smoke across the highway and into the city, the agency announced that the operations have concluded.
The announcement on social media said: “Crews have been able to burn approximately 3/4 of 110-acre site over the last two days. No additional burning will take place here the remainder of this week
The agency expressed thanks for fire departments from Vacaville and Fairfield as well as both communities for their “cooperation and understanding” and said the controlled burn will help build more wildfire resiliency for the area. The effort was funded by a wildfire prevention grant.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the highway along the Cherry Glen Extension crews responded to a fire on the 26 May in the early afternoon that eventually burned 52 acres.
While windy conditions existed on Monday, Cal Fire said the cause of the blazed, dubbed the Cherry Fire, was still “under investigation” as of Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Cal Fire incident website, the blaze started at the Cherry Glen Extension north of I-80 in Vacaville and burned uphill to the north, parallel with Pleasants Valley Road.
It apparently threatened homes on the 6000 block of Pleasants Valley Road but a bulldozer quickly constructed a control line along the easter flank, according to a post by Napa Solano Cal Fire.
The agency made airtanker water and fire retardant drops to protect homes and forward progress of the fire was stopped just after 2:30 p.m.
Cal Fire said no injuries were reported and there were no reports of structures burned but that fire crews will return to check the site periodically for the next several days.
Cal Fire began a prescribed burn alongside Interstate 80 in Vacaville, but after signs of smoke was found in a nearby city and on the highway, the decision was made to call a stop to the work.
