NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Fires in Yolo and Lake counties kept firefighters engaged on Saturday afternoon.
The largest of the fires, the Casino Fire, was first reported at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Cal Fire.
The Casino Fire was located in Yolo County off of Highway 16, north of Capay and just south of the Cache Creek Casino, Cal Fire reported.
Engines, copters and tankers reportedly responded to fight the fire, which was burning in grassy oak woodland with structures threatened.
Cal Fire said the blaze burned 260 acres before it was contained at 7:30 p.m. No structures were reported to have been damaged.
Shortly after 2 p.m. some of the Cal Fire tankers working on the Casino Fire were reportedly sent to the 9100 block of Rocky Creek Road in Morgan Valley Road where a small vegetation fire was burning.
Specifics of the Morgan Valley fire – which was reported to have burned about five acres – were not immediately available Saturday evening.
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