Firefighters advance on a small vegetation fire on Boyer Road Monday morning. (Gazette Photo by Dan Tucker).A riding lawnmower reportedly ignited a vegetation fire around 8:30 a.m. Monday morning, scorching approximately one acre.

Firefighters quickly extinguished the slow spreading fire in dry grass. Clean-up crews were onsite by 9 a.m., extinguishing any hot spots.

Look for further details in this week's Mariposa Gazette.