Lightning from heavy storm cells passing through the northwestern part of El Dorado County started the largest on Kanaka Valley Road in Rescue. The biggest of those fires was on Kanaka Valley Road in Rescue, according to the agency.įirefighters were diverted from the Caldor Fire to fight multiple lightning fires late last night throughout El Dorado County. Lightning caused bigger issues in the fight against the Caldor Fire, as officials from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said firefighters were diverted to fight multiple lightning-strike fires throughout El Dorado County. Officials said there was no immediate reason to believe either fire was caused by lightning. that turned out to be a pile of leaves, and a small brush fire in Antioch. and had it under control in an hour, keeping it at 100 feet-by-100 feet, according to Oakland Fire spokesman Michael Hunt.įire officials also said crews in the eastern part of Contra Costa County responded to a fire in the 18,000 block of Marsh Creek Road around 10 p.m. Oakland firefighters responded to a vegetation fire in the Oakland hills off Grizzly Park near the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve off Skyline Boulevard around 8:30 p.m. Here's a loop showing GLM data from GOES West 🛰 view the imagery for yourself #cawx #cafire /7IbX8a1lbR Lets take a look at the last 24 hours and how the lightning moved through the state. Lots of chatter about lightning⚡ this morning.
The weather service said it confirmed about 110 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in the Bay Area, and meteorologist Brayden Murdock said most of them were in the North Bay.Ībout 1,100 lightning strikes had been recorded in the whole state since Thursday evening, the weather service said. expiration, though it remained in effect for the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades through late evening. The National Weather Service cancelled a red-flag warning for dangerous fire conditions in the Bay Area before the 11 a.m. A storm that brought more than 100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes to the Bay Area but otherwise did relatively little harm migrated toward the northeast on Friday, taking with it the last vestiges of danger in this region.
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