Contra Costa Fire Hand Crew 12 fire control workers head back to the fire house after working on clearing a shaded fuel break in an olive grove in Martinez, Calif., on Monday, July 11, 2022. This is the Hand Crew 12’s third season but because of Measure X funding they started in April working all year long. The crew focuses on vegetation management and fuel reduction projects in Contra Costa County. Currently the crews are working on clearing a 4-acre olive grove that was planted in 1887. The work today is helping create defensible space protecting the homes and also protecting the olive grove if a structure fire was to break out. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
BRENTWOOD — Fire crews in Contra Costa County and with Cal Fire battled a wild fire that broke out late Friday morning and rose almost immediately to three alarms.
On social media, the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said the “large vegetation fire” was in the 100 block of Albers Court near Deer Valley Road. Crews were called to the blaze just before 11 a.m.
There was no information available immediately on how many acres had burned or how quickly the blaze was spreading.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Originally published at Rick Hurd