Fire crews in the East Bay are making progress on a vegetation fire in Antioch Friday afternoon that kicked up a large black cloud of smoke into the sky.
The Contra Costa Fire public information officer X account posted just before 4 p.m. that crews were at the scene of the fire on the 1700 block of West 4th St. A tower camera showed the two-alarm vegetation fire burning in what appeared to be part of the Corteva Wetlands Preserve at the edge of the San Joaquin River. So far there are no reports of any structures being threatened, but the fire appeared to be spreading in the affected wetlands area.
Officials said the fire had grown to approximately 5 acres.Shortly before 5 p.m., the smoke produced by the fire was diminishing as crews appeared to gain better control over the spreading blaze, but flames and smoke were still visible.However, a couple of areas of the fire remained stubborn and if anything may have grown over the next 20 minutes. As of 5 p.m., officials said the fire had grown to 18 acres with zero containment.At around 6:15 p.m.
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