Cause of San Luis Road fire still hazy

Firefighters from eight agencies fought blaze|

A barn and a mobile home on San Luis Road, south of Sonoma, were destroyed by fire Friday night.

There were no injuries and the cause of the blaze is still under investigation, said Schell-Vista Fire Chief Ray Mulas.

The initial call came in around 7 p.m., and personnel were on scene mopping up hot spots until about 12:30 a.m.

Mulas said the barn caught fire and spread to a nearby mobile home and then to a deck at an adjacent house. The barn and mobile home and the contents in each were destroyed.

“Access was difficult,” Mulas said. “We had to stretch lines by hand and had to lay a line along a dirt road.”

There’s no fire hydrants along San Luis Road so fire personnel used five or six water tenders from neighboring fire departments to ferry water to the blaze.

Mulas said that in addition to Schell-Vista, fire personnel from Sonoma Valley, Glen Ellen, Kenwood, Rancho Adobe, Lakeville, Petaluma and Willmar fought the blaze. He estimated that there were more than 20 firefighters fighting the fire.

Mulas said there was no electricity to the barn and nobody had been in it.

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