Fire officials in Contra Costa County on Friday announced a plan to flood the area of the Marsh Fire in order to extinguish the troublesome vegetation fire that has been burning since late May.
PITTSBURG -- Firefighters are using a rare strategy to fight a stubborn smoky fire that won't die down in East Contra Costa County. The so-called Marsh Fire has been burning for more than six weeks.
"What we're seeing is not necessarily large, active flames that are consuming vegetation. We're seeing this fire burning down in the earth and really off-gassing in the form of smoke. So we do get a tremendous amount of smoke production," said Confire deputy chief Aaron McAlister. Since they're pumping water from the Delta, it took a while to get all state and federal agencies to sign off on the plan. Confire said the last time they got permission to flood and put out a peat fire like this was about two years ago.
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