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Clark Fire burns 110 acres in Butte Valley, crash closes road

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Clark Fire burns 110 acres in Butte Valley, crash closes road
Clark Fire burns 110 acres in Butte Valley, crash closes road

As of 10 P.M., Clark Rd is fully open on both sides.

The Clark fire was stopped at 110 acres and is 100% contained.

New tonight, two vehicles collided sparking a fire on hwy 191 in butte valley.

Action news now reporter esteban reynoso has the latest from the scene.

Video shows the big rig driver's cabin still on fire, and crews battling to put it out.

It went off the road which caused a vegetation fire to start up and spread throughout this hill as you can see here?

Fire crews quickly called for air support to slow down the fire.

It took a little while to get some aircraft here which let the fire get a little bit bigger?

Battalion chief morris says calfire was spread thin, the challenges with this is we had other fires breaking in the north state.

So our aircraft were getting sent to those other fires?

But he credits new equipment for containing the fire.

So what about our new helicopter it comes already with 1,000 gallons right when it gets to our scene.

So his very first job is to put that thousand gallons of water on my fire which he did at the head which basically helped us contain the fire which slowed it down so we could actually contain it?

Crews here cleaned up parts of the crash by towing away all the vehicles involved.

34 fire personnel were on scene to battle the clark fire.

The cause of out.

It went off the road which caused a vegetation fire to start up and spread throughout this hill as you can see here?

Fire crews quickly called for air support to slow down the fire.

It took a little while to get some aircraft here which let the fire get a little bit bigger?

Battalion chief morris says calfire was spread thin, the challenges with this is we had other fires breaking in the north state.

So our aircraft were getting sent to those other fires?

But he credits new equipment for containing the fire.

So what about our new helicopter it comes already with 1,000 gallons right when it gets to our scene.

So his very first job is to put that thousand gallons of water on my fire which he did at the head eow 34 fire personnel were on scene to battle the clark fire.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

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