Dozer accident injures one on California’s Monticello Fire


A person has been hospitalized after a bulldozer overturned while digging line on the Monticello Fire, the latest growing blaze in Northern California that ignited on the Fourth of July.

The dozer overturned around 1:30 p.m. PDT on July 6, while cutting line on rugged terrain along the fire’s northern perimeter, local media reported. 

The person was taken “as a precaution” to Kaiser Permanente’s Vacaville Hospital Trauma Center nearby. CALFire had issued no further updates on injuries as of Monday afternoon.

The Monticello Fire started around 9:30 p.m. PDT on Friday, just outside the town of Winters, on the southeast shore of Lake Berryessa. It grew rapidly to nearly 7,000 acres by Monday morning, and had forced the shut down of portions of California State Highway 128. The fire also triggered evacuations of several neighborhoods and is currently threatening around 40 homes.