Nearly 3,000 people in the East Bay started their Fourth of July holiday in the dark Tuesday.
“The orange glow was pretty much the entire span of this fence and I knew immediately it was a fire,” she said.
Jester believes overgrown tree branches leaning on power lines caused the line to snap, triggering the fire on Reliez Valley Road in Lafayette. “They kept saying 'yeah, yeah, yeah we will do something’ then finally they did come out and they trimmed it but it was like a little trim. It didn’t solve the problem. Clearly, because now after the fire, they are taking the tree down,” said Jester.
“The lines are running through a lot of trees in this area, you should be cutting those trees down. That’s the first thing I thought of,” said Debbie Deeney of Lafayette.
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