VALLEJO (BCN) — Firefighters extinguished a grass fire in Vallejo this afternoon, the second in a week within a half-mile of each other, a fire official said.
Fire crews responded to a report of a grass fire at 12:50 p.m. near the intersection of Sacramento and Redwood streets, Vallejo fire Battalion Chief Cliff Campbell said.
Campbell said the fire started in a homeless encampment, where it appeared people had been using cooking appliances, and spread roughly a quarter of an acre.The fire was located about 100 yards from where a grass fire on Tuesday had ended, Campbell said. That fire consumed between three to five acres of vegetation, Campbell said.
On Tuesday, people living at the encampment told fire officials they saw someone they didn’t know bend over and spark the blaze.When fire crews arrived this afternoon, Campbell said all of the inhabitants had fled. A lot of material at the encampment burned, but Campbell said fire crews were able to extinguish the blaze within roughly five minutes.
No one reported any injuries, he said. On May 24, fire crews responded to a two-alarm fire at a vacant commercial building at 2290 Sacramento Street, roughly a tenth of a mile from the location of this afternoon’s fire.
The cause of that blaze is under investigation. Over the course of the past week, Vallejo firefighters responded
to two other blazes burning inside vacant buildings.
Fire crews doused a fire at 122 Martin Street on Tuesday and a fire in the 400 block of Maine Street on May 24.