It’s another drought year, and Cal-Fire firefighters have already contained 5 wildfires since March 31st in the Santa Cruz county area. Local rainfall totals are around 50 percent of normal for this time of year. Reportedly sever al of the 5 fires were from escaped burn piles. Cal-fire has warned that if crews continue to find that escaped burned piles are leading to such fires, they will put the Burn Ban back in-place.
