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At 5:45 A.M. 6-8 trucks were responding to a fire a short bit south of junction of Centennial on the top edge of Strawberry Canyon. The fire was visible from the Space Sciences building back parking lot at the top of the Jordan fire trail. Smoke was still visible an hour later from the lower canyon area. Also Berkeley Police Department officers at the bottom of the fire trail were looking for a naked man who had been seen by others and may or may not be related to the fire.

A spokesperson in the East Bay office of the state fire agency, CalFire, confirmed that there was a fire in a pile of chips from eucalyptus trees which had been cut down, and said that Oakland and Berkeley firefighters and other departments were on the scene.  

By mid-afternoon the fire, about an acre in size, was reported to have been extinguished.