Multiple calls keep Modesto firefighters busy

Firefighters with the Modesto Fire Department had a busy 24 hours, handling or helping with three blazes.

According to the fire department, firefighters assisted the Burbank Paradise Fire Department with a fire at a vacant home on Kenneth Street in west Modesto Friday.

Also, Friday, firefighters extinguished a fire in a trash pile at North Emerald and Loletta avenues just west of Highway 99. The pile was located in the back yard of a vacant home

And Saturday morning, firefighters were called to help the Ceres Fire Department battle a blaze at a barn on Blaker Road. That fire consumed a barn and shop and an adjacent mobile home. The American Red Cross was called to help the family displaced by the fire.

This story was originally published February 21, 2015 at 10:59 AM with the headline "Multiple calls keep Modesto firefighters busy."