PASO ROBLES, CA – At approximately 12:39 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26 Paso Robles
Fire and Emergency Services was dispatched to the area south of Niblick Bridge in the
Salinas Riverbed for a reported vegetation fire.
The first arriving unit reported approximately ¼ acre fire burning within the Salinas
Riverbed, to the west on Kohl’s. Crews were able to quickly contain the fire at 1.1 acres
because of the grazing fuel abatement work that had been recently completed.
Three fire engines and two Chief Officers from Paso Robles responded. Under the cities
Automatic Aid Agreement, four fire engines, one bulldozer, one hand crews, one
Battalion Chief, one air attack plane from Cal Fire/SLO County Fire, and one fire engine
from Atascadero Fire responded. The exact cause of the fire is still under investigation
but originated adjacent to a homeless encampment.
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