It has already been a busy past few weeks for fire crews around the Bay Area. High temperatures and fireworks this week have firefighters on high alert.
Heatwave, fireworks pose high fire danger during week of July 4 holiday, Bay Area firefighters sayAs high temperatures hit the Bay Area this week, firefighters brace for fireworks and potential wildfires.Fire crews were quick to put out a small fire that was burning near homes in Lafayette. No injuries or damage reported, but firefighters note that fire danger is high this week.
On Sunday, Cal Fire tweeted: "It has already been one of the busiest starts to a fire year in the CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit with over 20,000 acres already burned. That is more acres burned than the Unit saw over the entire three previous years combined." And this week will be hot -- temperatures in the 100s. Humidity will be low. The wind, always a wildcard. All combined, it poses a real threat of wildfire across the Northern California.
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