Travis Air Force Base was covered with fully contained fire on Saturday. The blazes have been brought by the wind and they destroyed 80 vacant homes in the area. The fire started at 3:15 p.m. and it was an eight-alarm one. It spread very quickly to an area of the base that was full of houses.

The fire began as a small grass fire and spread too quickly toward the northwest region of the base, near its main gate. After five hours, the fire was 80% contained and it had burnt 750 acres in the area.

Still, the fire officials asked no evacuation order from the residents in the homes which occupied the base of the area. Fire officials also stated that the blazes were 80% contained but isolated in the abandoned housing area.

The only think that the residents were asked to do was to stay indoors and have their windows closed as to protect themselves from the smoke. The fire crews from Air Force got help from the Fairfield Department and other fire crews in the area.

Blazes threatened more than 300 buildings but the firefighters managed to stop the fire before it destroyed them too. Officials say this was the biggest fire in the 66-year history of Travis.
No one was injured on Saturday.