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San Andreas, CA – A CAL Fire prescribed burn will bring smoky skies to the West Point area of Calaveras County beginning tomorrow.
The three-day burn, from December 3 to the 6th, will begin at 9 a.m. and last until 5 p.m. each day on the Winton-Schaad Vegetation Management Plan (VMP) site. That area is in the northeastern portion of Calaveras County, east of West Point near Lily Gap Road and North Bald Mountain Road.
Crews will be burning piles covering about 80 acres. CAL Fire reports the burn is designed to reduce forest fuels in strategic locations within the project area. They added that the public may see smoke or fire in this area during the prescribed burn, with personnel patrolling the ignited area until it is declared out.
Written by Tracey Petersen.
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