Sunday, 17 June 2007 23:53
Red Flag Day Sees Several Fires
Several Fires were reported around the region yesterday afternoon around
the 3 o’clock hour. Amador-El Dorado CalFire units were spread thin outside the county
responding to both a fire in Calaveras County and one in Sacramento County.
The Calaveras County incident, near Paloma, was reported around 3:30 pm as a
grass fire along the intersection of Hwy 49 and 26 outside Mokelumne Hill. Its
location was soon narrowed down to a fire in the Paloma area near Goodell Road.
Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit crews were dispatched to the scene as well as several
Amador El Dorado Units. Air Support was also called in to fight the brush fire.
A vegetation fire burned 19 acres on Nine Oaks
Rd. in the Paloma area. According to CAL FIRE TCU Captain Brandon Leitzke nine state engines responded
with six local government engines along with Air Attack, two air tankers and
Copter 404 from Columbia Air Base and two hand crews. As crews were
responding to this fire a report of a second smoke plume was called in- this one
in the opposite direction, in Sacramento County near Clay Station Rd and
Montford Rd. Amador County CalFire crews also responded to this vegetation
fire. Amador Cal Fire Battalion
Chief Dennis Tremelling assumed the incident commander position, called in
aircraft, and after 2 and half hours had the fire in mop up after burning 180
plus acres of grassland and vineyard. The cause is under investigation
and the mop up continued all night and will continue today as well.
