Smoke visible for miles as fire burns in Sacramento near American River Parkway
A grass fire burned through more than two dozen acres by late Monday afternoon along the American River Parkway in Sacramento.
The Sacramento Fire Department said in a social media post a little before 3 p.m. that the blaze was near mile marker 4 on the lower part of the parkway. Traffic on the Capital City Freeway is heavily impacted, officials said.
Several alarms worth of personnel has responded, Fire Department spokesman Capt. Keith Wade said in a Facebook post. Some “erratic wind activity,” he said, pushed the flames in different directions.
The fire is west of the freeway near the Sacramento Costco, Wade said, and no injuries have been reported.
Video from KCRA showed a large plume of smoke near the railroad bridge over the American River, just west of the Capital City Freeway.
Dark smoke also could be seen on Caltrans traffic cameras along the freeway, visible from miles away.
The fire had burned about 30 acres as of 4 p.m., with the cause under investigation, the Fire Department announced on Twitter.
This story was originally published July 19, 2021 at 2:50 PM.
