Knights Ferry Fire

8-14-11, 4:19 pm CAL FIRE planes and multi fire agencies are responding to a vegetation fire in Knights Ferry near the covered bridge.

(Knights Ferry Bridge is the longest, and one of the oldest, authentic covered wooden bridge west of the Mississippi River spanning the Stanislaus River since 1863. In the gold rush era, the Knights Ferry crossing on the old coach road from the the port at Stockton to Sonora in the gold Mother Lode.)