How to resolve AdBlock issue? The fire at 6920 Scotts Valley Road was first dispatched just before 12:45 p.m. Thursday, according to Lakeport Fire Chief Doug Hutchison.
A man was picking up bales of hay with a hay wagon to place in his barn when the equipment caught fire, Hutchison said.
Hutchison said he believed the fire’s cause was a mechanical issue with the baling wagon.
Resources that responded included a chief officer, three engines and a water tender from Lakeport Fire, an engine and a water tender from Northshore Fire, and from Cal Fire three engines, one crew, one dozer, one battalion chief and Copter 101 out of Willits, Hutchison said.
Hutchison said firefighters had forward progress stopped within 30 to 40 minutes of arriving on the scene.
He said the wind pushed the fire onto the neighbor’s property. “The copter went to work on that right away with the bucket and that got it stopped,” he said.
Part of the hay field burned, along with some hay and the bale wagon, Hutchison said. Firefighters managed to save some of the bales that hadn’t been picked up.
There were no injuries and no structure damage, he said.
Most of the units had been released by mid-afternoon, while Cal Fire stayed later to button up the scene, Hutchison said.
Cal Fire reported over the radio that total size was about seven acres, with the incident terminated at about 5:20 p.m.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
