Fire officials bringing ‘good fire’ back into the ecology via prescribed burns in Solano County

Fire officials bringing ‘good fire’ back into the ecology via prescribed burns in Solano County

Solano County acreage along I-80 will see smoke from prescribed burns in the coming weeks, authorities say

Fighting fire with fire

Despite a massive plume of smoke rumbling into the Solano County sky, I-80 motorists had nothing to worry about as they traveled through Lagoon Valley shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Everything was going according to plan. Cal Fire, the Solano Resource Conservation District, and teams from the Vacaville Fire Department and the Fairfield Fire Department conducted a controlled burn of grassland on Nelson Road between the two cities, just west …