Firefighters contained a grass fire near the San Martin Airport before it spread to the nearby animal shelter Monday afternoon, according to authorities.
About 2:15pm June 11, CalFire received a call reporting a fire on the southbound side of U.S. 101, opposite the northbound CHP scales, according to Battalion Chief Jim Crawford. When crews arrived they determined the fire was burning vegetation on the county airport property, spreading south toward the animal shelter located at 12370 Murphy Ave.
“Crews were able to do structure protection on the animal shelter—no damage there,” Crawford said.
Although the animal shelter was briefly threatened, no structures burned in the Monday afternoon fire. A little more than nine acres of vegetation burned before firefighters contained the blaze, according to Crawford.
Some employees at the animal shelter suffered “minor injuries” while they hurried to rescue some of the animals housed at the county facility, Crawford added. No firefighters were injured.
