Rodent Deterrent Ignites Fire In Calaveras County

Ouesta Fire that ignited in the Wallace area of Calaveras County—CCFD photo

Wallace, CA— This morning, a property owner in Wallace used a rodent deterrent on his yard, which ignited a fire in Calaveras County, according to local fire officials.

Calaveras Consolidated Fire (CCF) crews responded around 10 a.m. to a vegetation fire in the 98000 block of Questa Road, off Southworth Road and south of Highway 12 in Wallace. When they arrived, neighbors had already contained the small grass fire at approximately an eighth of an acre.

CCF officials report that the cause of the fire was determined to be the owner igniting a “gopher bomb.”