Firefighters fully contained the Creek Fire, which was burning in the Sunol area of Alameda County, Friday night, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reported.
The fire had been burning for about a week and burned 744 acres, according to Cal Fire.
The fire started on Friday, July 26around Welch Creek Road and Calaveras Road in Sunol and was declared contained at 6:40 p.m. on Friday, August 2.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Cal Fire’s latest situation report.
A total of 83 firefighters, six engines, three dozers and three hand crews, among others, were deployed during the week from the Alameda County Fire Department and Cal Fire to battle the blaze.
On Monday, an evacuation order for Calaveras Road was downgraded to a warning, allowing residents to return home as emergency agencies continued to work in the area.
After two relatively mild years, California is now experiencing its worst wildfires in 16 years. As of July 30, more than 629,000 acres — nearly a thousand square miles — had burned across the country, marking the highest amount by that date since 2008, according to a Bay Area News Group analysis of data from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
In Northern California, fire crews are currently battling 399,500 acre Park Fire near Chicowhich began on July 24. The size of the fire is about 625 square kilometers, larger than the city of Los Angeles, and is the fourth largest wildfire in California history.
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