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Wildfire outside Santa Barbara, California, threatens homes, causes evacuations

 

Firefighters battle flames off Highway 154 north of Santa Barbara, California, U.S. November 25, 2019, in this picture obtained from social media. Mandatory credit Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department/via REUTERS

 

SANTA BARBARA, Calif (Reuters) - Fire ripped through brush and woodland on hills above Santa Barbara, California, early on Tuesday, causing authorities to order more than 2,000 residents of a nearby canyon to flee their homes, according to officials and local media.

 

The Cave Fire started in the Los Padres National Forest at around 4:15 p.m. on Monday in Santa Barbara County, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Los Angeles.

 

County officials declared a local emergency.

 

The fire had consumed some 4,100 acres (1,660 hectares) by Tuesday morning, with none of it contained, Daniel Bertucelli of the county fire department told reporters.

 

Firefighters rushed to contain a blaze that ripped through brush and woodland on hills above the Californian city of Santa Barbara early on Tuesday, forcing residents to leave their homes, authorities said. Colette Luke has more.

 

Nine helicopters were dropping water to aid 600 firefighters, who were bracing for rainy conditions later in the day, he said.

 

Mandatory evacuation orders covered some 2,400 homes, the Los Angeles Times reported.

 

A single outbuilding was the only property damaged recorded by Tuesday morning, Bertucelli said, though flames were pushing toward populated areas on the northern flanks of the coastal cities of Santa Barbara and Goleta.

 

Firefighters from neighboring areas were rushing to Santa Barbara to help the local service control the blaze, authorities said.

 

Nearly 200,000 acres (80,937 hectares) have been consumed in wildfires across the state this year, according to the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection.

 

(Reporting by David McNew in Santa Barbara, California, Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru and Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Ed Osmond and Dan Grebler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-11-27

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[Tug]

Went through a big one there in the early 70s lost 3 neighbors no way out we were the second house In from the main road very scary experience loud and hot

Edited November 26, 2019 by Tug

[jany123]

the trump really should have allowed those Latin Americans, desperate for a life and job in the Divided States, in... they could have been given a job raking up the leaves in the forest, thereby reducing this risk, as he so astutely noted in an earlier fire season

[Stargeezr]

Seems like there are wild fires on California every year now, not sure what they can do to get less of them but some sort of plan should be taken. I sure would not build near the danger area, with this happening so often.

Geezer

[sunnyboy2018]

Incredible the way the Americans are never prepared for these events.

[WeekendRaider]

3 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Seems like there are wild fires on California every year now, not sure what they can do to get less of them but some sort of plan should be taken. I sure would not build near the danger area, with this happening so often.

Geezer

the article on the front page of The Guardian, this morning, republished from Nature.... one of the top 2 or 3 peer reviewed science journals, says that that danger area is all of the 2nd large rocky planet. Ya know... the 2nd of only 2 with active volcanoes and gases that allow life as well as fires to be made by “Man” as well as nature [sic].
 

and.... that we already now seem to have crossed a threshold that is “one way” even if we were to “solve” the aerosol effect problem as well as do the “carbon removals” agreed to in Paris 4 years ago now.