The Berkeley Fire Department is responding to a quarter-acre vegetation fire in West Berkeley on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Watch Duty app, police have closed Frontage Road between Gilman Street and University Avenue.
Footage from ALERTCalifornia, a public safety and environmental monitoring program based at the University of California, San Diego, shows smoke billowing into the air.
The Scanner has requested information from the Berkeley Fire Department and will update this post as soon as more details become available.
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Update, 2 p.m. “Frontage Road is currently closed to all vehicle traffic between University Avenue and Gilman Street,” police reported in a Nixle alert.
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