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Fire crews made some progress amid a cooler, breezy summer night in the battle against the wildfire in the Sunol Regional Wilderness, which stood at 595 acres with 5% containment as of Saturday morning, according to Cal Fire.
Evacuations remain in effect for the public open space and park in Sunol as well as along Welch Creek Road in Sunol due to the Creek Fire, according to authorities.
“Structures remain threatened. While terrain and weather have impacted containment efforts, firefighters continued working hard throughout the night to implement containment lines,” Cal Fire reported on its website Saturday morning.
The wildfire sparked just before 4 p.m. Friday (July 26) southeast of the intersection of Welch Creek and Calaveras roads in Sunol, according to the Alameda County Fire Department. The cause remains unknown and under investigation.
The Creek Fire grew to 577 acres with zero containment by the final report on Friday night, but as the morning arrived, the rate of spread had slowed and the wildfire sat at 595 acres and 5% contained, according to Cal Fire.
The incident is now a unified command involving Cal Fire, ACFD and the East Bay Regional Park District Fire Department. Crews are fighting the fire from the ground and the air.
It is the 11th largest wildfire currently burning in California. At the top of the list is the 307,368-acre Park Fire raging with zero containment outside of Chico in Butte County.
Directly below the Creek Fire on the statewide list Saturday morning was the Point Fire in Contra Costa County between Concord and Bay Point (471 acres, 40% contained), and two spots down from that was the Flynn Fire on the Altamont Pass in unincorporated Livermore (389 acres; 85% contained), according to Cal Fire.
