Crews extinguished a car fire in a parking garage in Walnut Creek on Wednesday evening and vapors from the fire prompted the county to issue a shelter-in-place for people near the garage. The two-alarm blaze occurred around 5 p.m. in an underground garage at 2121 North California Blvd. after an electric vehicle caught fire, The Contra Costa Fire Protection District said. It was a plug-in hybrid that was charging before the blaze ignited. At 6:33 p.m., the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office issued a shelter-in-place near Mount Diablo Plaza on California Boulevard due to the fire, which is emitting “extremely hazardous smoke,” Con Fire said. Electric vehicle fires take a long time to die down, Con Fire said, and crews will remain at the site as the car batteries continue off-gassing. No on

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