Expect column of smoke visible for miles from Pescadero operation
Firefighters take part in a prescribed burn at Calero County Park on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. The 165 acre low intensity fire was used to reduce fuels and improve ecosystem health. A column of smoke will be seen Monday for miles across parts of the Bay Area. But it’s not an emergency.
The 1,800-acre ranch, owned since 2002 by financier and former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer and his wife, philanthropist Kat Taylor, has been the site of numerous other controlled burns in recent years. The goal is to reduce fire risk in the community and regenerate fire-tolerant plant species, such as native grasslands.
The fire is expected to burn coyote brush, grasses, poison oak and other vegetation. Juliette said there will be several engines, numerous firefighters, and likely a CalFire helicopter there for safety. In recent years, as wildfire risk has worsened, fire agencies across the state have worked to increase mechanical thinning and controlled burns in landscapes that naturally burned regularly but which have seen decades of fire suppression, building up unnaturally high levels of brush and trees.
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