Contra Costa County Fire Says Fireworks Cause of 4-Alarm Pittsburg Fire

Investigators Decide Fireworks Prompted Main Grass Hearth that Threatened 100 Properties, Prompted Evacuation of two,200 Residents

CONCORD, CALIF. – Contra Costa County Hearth Safety District (Con Hearth) immediately introduced hearth investigators have decided fireworks had been the reason for the early morning June 17 grassfire that originated within the open area south of Jacqueline Drive, Pittsburg. The hearth threatened some 100 houses and compelled the necessary evacuation of roughly 2,200 residents.

The blaze, first reported at 2 a.m., prompted a four-alarm response from each Con Hearth and Cal Hearth, with greater than 100 firefighters and help personnel dispatched to the scene. Construction safety crews, who had been aided by substantial work by residents to create defensible area round their properties, had been required to guard quite a few houses.

When the fireplace was declared knocked down at 6 a.m, the fireplace had burned 121 acres. Climate circumstances on the time – principally excessive winds, gusting to 30 miles per hour – coupled with extraordinarily dry and harmful vegetation, shortly fed the fireplace, which burned to the northeast, northwest and south, threatening houses to the north.

The necessary evacuation order carried out by incident commanders, and executed by Pittsburg Police and the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Workplace, was Con Hearth’s first vital use of the brand new Zonehaven digital evacuation software, evacuating zone PTS-E008. Many residents additionally self-evacuated forward of the order as flames shortly unfold.

Con Hearth encourages all County residents to be taught their dwelling’s zone by visiting www.cwsalerts.com and clicking on the “Know Your Zone” tab on the high of the web page.

No firefighters or civilians had been reported injured on account of the blaze.

The hearth stays underneath investigation right now to determine the individual or individuals liable for setting off the fireworks.