FAIRFIELD (AP) — Residents are trying to pick up the pieces a day after a grass fire tore through a Northern California neighborhood, destroying five homes and damaging 10 others. About 50 people fled after an initially small roadside fire spread in the city of Fairfield, about 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, late Tuesday afternoon, Fairfield Fire Battalion Chief Matt Luckenbach said. No injuries were reported, Luckenbach said, as the wind-driven fire that started in some grass near Interstate 80 jumped a creek, skipped a freeway sound wall and raced through the neighborhood, spreading through vegetation and treetops.
Grass fire destroys 5 homes,10 damaged