Lockheed Fire
CNN reports on the Lockheed Fire
(CNN) — A fast-moving wildfire near the Santa Cruz Mountains prompted the mandatory evacuation of some 600 people in northern California early Thursday, fire officials said.
Authorities did not immediately know what caused the fire, which began about 7 p.m. Wednesday and burned an estimated 1,200 acres in the town of Bonny Doon by 1 a.m., said John Forbes with the city’s fire and rescue department.
Evacuations have been extended to the Braemore, Swanton and Davenport areas.
The area is near the Pacific coast about 55 miles south of San Francisco.
“Right now, details are sketchy,” said Jim Crawford, spokesman for the California fire agency, Cal Fire.
High winds tripled the size of the fire in just a few hours.
According to the Cal Fire incident page: 2,800 acres burning with 0% containment in the Santa Cruz Mountains. More than 1000 structures threatened.
Currently there are 120 engines, 15 crews, 15 dozers, 3 water tenders, and 670 personnel assigned to the fire.
Links: Enplan Wildfire Viewer for California, the Santa Cruz Sentinel local news page, and their Map: Lockheed Fire.
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That fire is not looking good. The smell of smoke is getting denser here in town…although the SB County fire(s) are up over the mountains.
I hate this smell when there isn’t some sort of toasty food to follow….
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If you look at Enplan, it is a much denser fire than the La Brea fire, and it is burning redwoods, not chaparral. I wonder if the smoke is coming down the coast, or the backfires set in La Brea are hotter than the actual fire.
If they didn’t make it clear, there is a Lockheed Martin facility in the area that is being used as a command center, hence the name.
Because La Brea is federal, and this is a state fire, your county has equipment in the fight, as well as everyone else in the area.
That looks like it could get nasty. 🙁 Is that actually near Santa Cruz? I was there many years ago (because GD had an interest in UCSC, they do some very weird Physics there!) Really nice town and region of CA, I liked it. I had friends who still live there (we lost touch, both busy and moving in different directions). I liked that part of CA, around SanFran. Sadly, I wasn’t there long enough. 🙂
I hope everyone stays safe and smart! Best of luck.
Love Santa Cruz….and gotta love those UCSC folks with their weird physics and even weirder school mascot…the Banana Slugs.
Last I heard from the Santa Cruz fire, they are evacuating approx. 2,000+ folks.
There are two fires blazing in the county…and then some back fires. The wind brought down ash all day today…that part of the County hasn’t burned since the 20’s. Gotta think it is blazing..HOT HOT HOT. We’ve got County Fire AND City Fire involved…and then there are those “socialist” healthcare loving “Canuckistans” and their “socialist” firefighting airplanes.
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As it stands now, the fire is Northwest of the campus, and South of the Lockheed facility in the mountains. It looks like is could take off in the hot dry weather forecast for the weekend.
So far only two outbuildings burned and no injuries, so there’s hope, but a lot of mature redwood is burning.