CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Local and state firefighters moved fast to contain two fires in Clearlake on Wednesday – one in wildland and another in a structure.
The first fire was reported just before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to the south of the Eastlake Landfill, with both flames and smoke seen by the original reporting party, according to dispatch reports.
Lake County Fire Chief Willie Sapeta, the incident commander, told Lake County News that the fire was located east of 36th Avenue and Wilkinson Road, with firefighters accessing it off of 31st Avenue.
According to radio reports, it took firefighters a little more than 10 minutes to access the fire, but once there it took them 20 minutes to a half hour to fully contain it, with line all around the fire, said Sapeta.
Sapeta said Lake County Fire and Cal Fire responded, with resources at the scene including five engines, two crews, a dozer and aircraft.
Altogether, the fire burned two and a half acres, Sapeta said.
He said the cause remains under investigation.
Sapeta said Lake County Fire and Cal Fire – with mutual aid coming from Northshore Fire’s Clearlake Oaks station – would later respond to a fire that damaged a shed and a singlewide mobile home.
That fire, which occurred in the 6200 block of Old Highway 53, was dispatched just before 8 p.m., according to radio reports.
A shed caught fire and extended into the mobile home, said Sapeta.
“It was kept at bay by neighbors with garden hoses until we got there,” he said.
The fire did not destroy the mobile home but did damage one bedroom and its contents, with the residents temporarily displaced until it can be repaired, according to Sapeta. There were no injuries.
At about the same time, firefighters got a call of a fire alarm going off at Adagio Apartments on Olympic Drive, Sapeta said.
Once they responded, Sapeta said they found there was no fire at the apartment complex.
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Firefighters stop Clearlake wildland and structure fires
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