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Fire crews halt evening Ukiah wildfire sparked by burning mobile home

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This is the area of Low Gap Road where the fire spread from a house trailer into the woods, stopped by firefighters before it could spread beyond an area of less than 10,000 square feet. Its about 3.3 miles west of the county headquarters on the same road.

A wildfire in the steep, forested hills just west of Ukiah was stopped by quick action from fire crews Tuesday night, though pockets of fire continued to burn. The blaze began when a house trailer along Low Gap Road caught fire and spread into nearby vegetation. The trailer was reported to be a total loss.

Scanner traffic, Nixle, and Watch Duty placed the incident in the 3400 block of Low Gap Road, with the first response arriving shortly after 9 p.m. By 10 p.m., crews reported the fire had been surrounded, with less than 0.2 acre burned, and were working hot spots.

No injuries were reported in the mobile‑home fire. A second trailer was threatened but did not burn.

A fast stop this time. Stay alert, stay safe — fire season is only beginning.

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Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.

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