Investigators say fireworks caused Pittsburg wildfire that forced evacuations

PITTSBURG (CBS SF/BCN) – Investigators say fireworks brought on a four-alarm Pittsburg grass fireplace June 17 that compelled 2,200 residents to evacuate and threatened 100 properties, and they’re on the lookout for suspects Wednesday.  

The Contra Costa County Fireplace Safety District mentioned Wednesday investigators decided it was fireworks that began the early morning fireplace within the open house south of Jacqueline Drive. 

First reported at 2 a.m., the blaze prompted a four-alarm response from each Con Fireplace and Cal Fireplace, with greater than 100 firefighters and assist personnel dispatched to the scene. Construction safety crews had been required to guard quite a few properties. 

The hearth burned 121 acres by the point firefighters knocked it down at 6 a.m. Officers mentioned winds as much as 30 miles per hour, together with extraordinarily dry vegetation, shortly fed the hearth. No accidents had been reported. 

Con Fireplace officers mentioned the obligatory evacuation executed by Pittsburg Police and the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Workplace, was Con Fireplace’s first important use of the brand new Zonehaven digital evacuation device (county residents can discover out extra by going to www.cwsalerts.com and clicking on the “Know Your Zone” tab on the high of the web page). 

Con Fireplace stresses the hazard of fireworks and the worth of householders getting ready their properties with weed abatement and defensible house creation.