Categories: 2009 Fire Season

Two Minor Fires — One Big Sur, one Santa Barbara

As of 8:30 pm last night, LPNF WildCAD is reporting this as 1/4 acre in heavy brush between Palo Colorado and Old Coast Rd. Nothing being reported this morning, 6/9, which is a good thing.

The second was about a mile from the Gaviota rest stop in Santa Barbara. As of 11 pm, Wildfire is reporting this one is holding at 15 acres.

I finally get around to posting new photos, and I am preempted by fires. Just look below.

bigsurkate

Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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  • I'm so glad that you got your camera! Great pictures. There's an article in the Vanity Fair that has some pictures of Santorini. I'll save it for the next time I see you.

  • I was sitting here catching up with your blogs, posting a comment on the prior one and suddenly got the strong smell of smoke. Every time I smell smoke now, something very internal in me panics. I don't understand why in an obvious fire season where we live in a 'red area' as defined on the fire maps, that some neighbor must burn in their fireplaces? Its not for lack of a way to heat their homes.

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