The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, the Contra Costa Water District and outside vendors are flooding several hundred acres of Delta peat soil in an attempt to finally extinguish a slow-burning blaze that started in late May, according to the fire district.

Smoke from the Marsh Fire, which started on May 28 in a Bay Point homeless encampment and has burned about 500 acres, has prompted the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to issue a series of air quality advisories for wildfire smoke in the eastern part of the county, the latest one released Friday extending the advisory through July 18. The smoke has been impacting the areas of Pittsburg, Antioch, Oakley and Brentwood.

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.