The wildfire season for Cal Fire’s Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit appears to be slower than a year ago, with no major blazes, like the Lowell Fire, occurring so far. But Fire Captain Scott Eckman says, in terms of the number of incidents they’ve responded to up to this point, they’ve actually been busier…

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But Eckman says the START of the season WAS later this year, because of the wettest winter in a number of years. Also, property owners have been increasingly vigilant with defensible space…

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But the wet winter also has created more fuels for this season and the driest months are still ahead. Eckman had no specifics on the number of fires the Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit has responded to, nor any acreage figures.