Much smaller burns ignite almost daily.
On Wednesday, firefighters from the Point Reyes Station firehouse responded to hot spots on Dover Drive in Paradise Ranch Estates, plus a blaze in a canyon 1,000 feet below Nancy Stein's house on Drake's Summit Drive. On Saturday afternoon, an unrelated fire scorched an acre in Tocaloma. Lots of unburned fuel Fire Captain Ed Mestre and his crew arrived first and called for four more engines, each of which took up the defense at a different house. Mestre said the early morning blaze burned eight to 11 acres. Fire crews have been stationed there ever since.