LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Local and state firefighters contained a fire that occurred late Monday night along Highway 29 near Lower Lake.
The fire off Highway 29 and Hofacker Lane was first reported at about 10:20 p.m., with units dispatched from Cal Fire, Lake County Fire, Kelseyville Fire and Northshore Fire’s Clearlake Oaks station, according to radio reports.
The first units on scene reported over the radio that two small fires had burned together up the hill on the side of northbound Highway 29, just north of Hofacker. No structures were threatened.
Just after 11:15 p.m. the fire’s forward progress was reported to be stopped, and just after 11:35 p.m. it was reported to be contained at three acres, according to reports from the scene.
Cal Fire’s incident commander at the scene reported at that point that resources were expected to remain on scene for five hours.
Units at the scene had asked the California Highway Patrol to close the northbound lane of traffic while the firefighting effort was under way.
Shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday the CHP reported that traffic was still being diverted around the fire area, with Caltrans putting a closure in place at Highway 29 at Spruce Grove Road South and directing traffic onto Spruce Grove Road.
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Firefighters contain late night blaze off Highway 29
- Elizabeth Larson
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