La Brea Update 8-14
The fire in the San Rafael Wilderness area has now burned over 67,000 acres and is 10% contained. Evacuations have been ordered on the Southwest side of the fire as it shifted directions. A second fire started near Santa Maria for unknown reasons [probable arson] that burned about 10 acres and pulled crews away from the main fire.
There have been 2 minor injuries fighting the fire which has already cost $6.3 million.
Currently there are 90 engines, 59 crews, 25 dozers, 5 tankers, 11 helicopters, and 1,859 total personnel assigned to the fire.
Links: The KEYT La Brea Fire article, the Santa Barbara Independent La Brea Fire page, InciWeb La Brea page with a map, KSBY has videos and the Enplan Wildfire Viewer, which used satellite sensors to spot fires.
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We’ve got some wineries that are being threatened…haven’t heard if some of the vineyards have been torched. The two that come to mind in one of the canyons that has been manditory evacuated, Byron and Kenneth Volk. This doesn’t bode well for them, even if they don’t get burned, as in terms of it’s about harvest season for some of the varietals of grapes and they might not get them off the vines in time.
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This thing jumped by over 10k acres overnight, so it is doubtful that anything not outside the established fire lines will survive. They were protecting the North, and the wind shifted taking the fire to the Southwest.
With all of the tropical activity in the Eastern Pacific, you would think that one storm could head North and do some good.
The Lockheed fire is threatening Santa Cruz wineries, too.
I like my chardonnay a bit on the toasty side…but not quite this way.
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The smokey flavor should come from the charred barrels, not the roof beams.
Oh..BTW…we have another fire going…
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/14/Wildfire-near-Solimar-Beach/
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