A swift response from local firefighters were all that stood in the way of a Grass Valley car dealership losing some of its inventory to a vegetation fire. Around midnight Monday, a 1-acre vegetation fire broke out in the forest behind Liberty Motors, located in the 600 block of Freeman Lane in Grass Valley, said Nevada County Consolidated Fire District Battalion Chief Jim Turner. The fire crept within about 10 feet of three travel trailers on the Liberty Motors lot, before firefighters from Grass Valley Fire Department, Ophir Hill Fire Protection District and Consolidated established a defense line and quickly …












