Rain puts damper on CAL FIRE’s prescribed burn in Sonoma County [Video]

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) — In the North Bay, fire season is far from over. On Monday, CAL FIRE crews conducted a large controlled burn inside Trione-Annadel State Park in Santa Rosa. It’s way to clear dry brush and grasses ahead of fall and winter rains, but the elements threw firefighters a curveball.

Nearly 100 CAL FIRE crews were on the ground, lighting fires inside Trione-Annadel State Park.

The controlled or prescribed burn is a way to eliminate years of dry brush which could fuel a future wildfire on Bennett Ridge in Santa Rosa that burned in 2017.

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“This was part of the Nuns Fire, that decimated the subdivision to the west. So this was a project with California State Parks and CAL FIRE to create a buffer from that neighborhood and that future wildfire event,” said CAL …