SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – Some Solano County residents have been cleared to return to their homes after a wildfire prompted evacuation orders on Tuesday afternoon.
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County officials lifted all evacuation warnings just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, about 90 minutes after downgrading orders to warnings while firefighters battled a rapidly moving blaze near the Highway 80/680 interchange in Fairfield.
The Solano County Office of Emergency Services tweeted at 2:47 p.m. that Cordelia Road and Thomasson Lane had reopened, a little more than three hours after a vegetation fire started burning in the area.
Officials initially warned residents from 2490 Cordelia Rd. east to Thomasson Lane – including everyone living on the latter street – of possible evacuations just after noon. Then, about an hour after the fire started, officials ordered residents in the aforementioned area to evacuate.
At 1:30 p.m, the Solano County Office of Emergency Services formally downgraded the orders to warnings, as firefighters halted the blaze’s forward progress at 22 acres.
CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit firefighters assisted as aircraft dropped retardant on the fire, but the agency didn’t classify the blaze as one of its own incidents.
It's unclear what caused the fire.
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