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California Burning Update -Tuesday
Foggy and cool with no overnight winds has slowed the Gap wildfire to a crawl, and may have bought time to defeat the 10,000 acre fire burning near the crest of the mountains behind Goleta 10-12 miles Northwest of Santa Barbara. Power outages have become a daily occurance as ash settles on transmission lines where the carbon archs and blows out circuits. The fire is a third contained.
The Big Sur wildfire appears to have been beat to a standstill.
Perhaps the greatest danger is the forecast for triple digit temperatures through midweek.
California Burning Sunday Evening
About 10,000 acres have burned. At 2PM local time officials said 2,500 firefighters were battling the blaze including a STRIKE TEAM FROM MONTANA has assumed leadership. No homes have been lost although flames got close enough to melt irrigation systems. The winds have stayed down today, and unless something bad happens this evening it looks like the fire will be contained by midweek. Helicopters and aircraft amd buzzing around like moths to a flame. Nevertheless white legged tourist in outragous shirts showed up in Santa Barbara in droves this weekend as usual to gasp at $5.15 gasoline prices.
California Burning Report #2.
“Firefighters are stretched thin, they are exhausted,” and some have gone days without sleep, said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who visited a command post in Santa Barbara County. The “Gap” fire topped 8,000 acres and is reportedly 24% contained. Some people have been allowwed to return to their homes, and no additional homes have been destroyed.
A bit ago I saw an ENGINE COMPANY FROM LONG BEACH100 miles away parked on a Santa Barbara City street. It doesn’t seem to have stopped July 4th tourist from prowling Santa Barbara streets, nor politicians from posturing, preening, and acting like they are doing something. Otherwise folks are non-plus.
Otherwise the firefighters are doing their jobs. and m,y sense is unless the winds kickup we’ll be out of this mess in a couple days.
California Burning
REPORT FROM THE WILDFIRE ZONE. Except for losing power periodically and a salting of ash the Goleta Fire has not effected me. Fireworks went off with out a hitch last night over the harbor in Santa Barbara but were cancelled in next door Goleta. Emergency cell phone broadcasts arrive regularly as t seems the “Gap” fire burning on the mountain “behind” Goleta is now more than 6,000 acres The smoke and ash is blowing away.
It doesn’t usually affect me except for sneezing but some folks are having a tough time. They have handed out 10-20,000 breathing mask so the place looks a little like an epidemic zone. Winds are dead calm this morning. The sky above Santa Barbara is blue but over Goleta 8 mles away is smokey. Some evacuees apparently move in with a neighbor. But, except for fire crews rushing around and a squadron of aircraft dive bombing the fire including one DC10 yesterday it is surprising quiet.