UPDATE: No cause determined for Clover Creek Preserve fire in Redding

Michele Chandler, Redding Record Searchlight
Updated ·2 min read

UPDATE: 5:34 p.m. on Sunday, June 23, 2024

Forward progress of the fire that broke out late Sunday afternoon in Redding's Clover Creek Preserve has been stopped, said Redding Fire Department Battalion Chief Shawn Plummer. The fire in southeast Redding had reached about 9 acres in size, he said.

While the blaze threw up copious amounts of smoke, there were no injuries reported and no homes were damaged, Plummer said, although several wooden fences separating the rear of some homes from the 128-acre preserve were burned.

"It just got our fence and shrubbery," said homeowner Rebecca Lewis, standing on the front sidewalk with her husband, Aaron, and son, Jordan, as fire crews fought the blaze behind their house.

Rebecca Lewis said she called 911 after seeing a huge plume of smoke rising beyond their backyard in the preserve. She said she then alerted neighbors and noted that people along the street were offering their assistance to homeowners closest to where the fire was burning.

Firefighters were working late Sunday afternoon behind about nine homes on a stretch of Forest Hills Drive with backyards abutting the preserve.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, Plummer said.

UPDATE: 4:34 p.m. on Sunday, June 23, 2024

At least nine pieces of firefighting equipment are on the scene of a blaze that broke out about 4 p.m. in the Clover Creek Preserve in southeast Redding.

At least nine pieces of fire equipment responded when a blaze was reported in the Clover Creek Preserve in southeast Redding on June 24, 2024.
At least nine pieces of fire equipment responded when a blaze was reported in the Clover Creek Preserve in southeast Redding on June 24, 2024.

Responders are from the Redding Fire Department, the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services and SHASCOM, the Shasta Area Safety Communications Agency.

ORIGINAL STORY: Sunday, June 23, 2024

Firefighters are on the scene of a blaze reported shortly before 4 p.m. at the Clover Creek Preserve in southeast Redding.

The blaze is burning just behind several homes on Forest Hills Drive. The first truck arrived at 4 p.m. and at least six trucks were on the scene by 4:17 p.m.

This is a breaking story and a reporter is on the scene. Updates will be provided as available on redding.com.

Michele Chandler is the local managing editor at the Redding Record Searchlight. Call her at 530-338-7753 or email her at mrchandler@gannett.com. Please support our entire newsroom's commitment to public service journalism by subscribing today.

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