Overview
- Firefighters responded to a large vegetation fire on an abandoned rail trestle near West Grand and Wake avenues and kept the blaze tied to the structure.
- Crews prevented the fire from spreading onto adjacent East Bay Municipal Utility District property, though embers started small spot fires in the utility yard.
- Oakland fire officials said crews stayed on scene into the morning to fully extinguish hotspots and monitor the trestle for rekindles.
- No cause has been announced and investigators are still determining how the blaze began.
- The trestle has burned multiple times in recent years and a section was previously removed after earlier fires damaged nearby freeway concrete, a history that raises concerns about future blazes and infrastructure risk.