6 pm – I have a fire in CV on Chamisal Pass I need to follow, so won’t be doing but maybe one more update tonight on this one. Also following the Tower Fire on Cuesta Grade.
5:30 pm –
Smoke from the Alamo Fire seen from above Friday afternoon. (San Luis Obispo City Fire Department photo)
4:30 pm – Alamo is up to 3,000, a gain of 2500 acres in 1/2 an hour. mandatory evac for Blazing Saddles Road underway
4 pm – Santa Cruz fire stopped at 2 acres, but the Alamo Fire went nuclear and doubled in less than an hour.
Flames from the Alamo Fire are visible from the Santa Maria Mesa area. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
3:00 pm – The fire in SLO Co started yesterday and is called Alamo Fire. It is 250 acres, but with 1/4 mile spotting and a dangerous rate of spread and looks to be blowing up at this hour. 7 hours ago, it was basically a done deal, they thought. Now it is anything but. It is off of EB SR 166 near Alamo Creek. It is currently burning in both SLO Co. and SB Co.
#AlamoIC (update) incident commander ordering evacuations for the Tepusquet Blazzing Saddles area. Orders being given by Santa Barbara Cnty
Winds caused it to jump the lines, it has crossed hwy 166.
This is from the roof of the Santa Maria PD this afternoon:
And in Santa Cruz, a fire started out by the Golf Course about an hour ago. Here is what CHP posted.
2:49 PM 16 [32] ***UPPER PARK AT BRANICORTE AND UPPER PARK AT ARMORY ARE CLOSED DOWN BY SCRZ PD
2:15 PM 15 [9] B26-015 FIRE APPEARS JNO GOLF OCURSE / FIRE STAGING IN GOLF COURSE
2:11 PM 14 [26] [Appended, 14:23:15] [16] [Appended, 14:11:44] [4] PER RP MAY BE ASSOC W/ DE LAVEAGA FIRE – NETCOM ADVSD RP FIRE IS SPREADING RAPIDLY
2:11 PM 13 [25] [Appended, 14:23:15] [15] [Appended, 14:11:44] [3] RP ADV THIS MAY BE ASSOC W/ DE LAVEAGA PARK FIRE RP UNSURE
2:10 PM 12 [23] [Appended, 14:23:15] [13] [Appended, 14:11:44] [1] RP SEES COLUMN OF SMOKE FM NEW BRIGHTON BEACH NORHT TWRDS APTS OF NEW BRIGHTON BEACDH
2:08 PM 11 [8] PER RP THIS IS SEPERATE FM DE LAVEAGA FIRE
2:07 PM 10 [7] B26-015 24 / NUMEROUS FIRE ENGINES
2:07 PM 9 [20] [Appended, 14:23:15] [8] [Appended, 14:08:34] [4] RP ADV FIRE IS VISIBLE FM WATER ST
2:07 PM 8 [19] [Appended, 14:23:15] [7] [Appended, 14:08:34] [3] NETCOM ADV WILDLAND FIRE IS ONGOING
2:07 PM 7 [18] [Appended, 14:23:15] [6] [Appended, 14:08:34] [2] SMOKE SEEN FM HILLS NEAR DE LAVEAGA PARK
2:06 PM 6 [17] [Appended, 14:23:15] [5] [Appended, 14:08:34] [1] FIRE NEAR DE LA VEAGA PARK
2:04 PM 5 [5] FIRE IS 400 YARDS FM RP’S HOUSE
2:03 PM 4 [16] [Appended, 14:23:15] [10] [Appended, 14:09:47] [1] TRANS TO NET COM
2:03 PM 3 [3] RP SEES LRG AMT OF GRY/WHI SMOKE
2:02 PM 2 [1] FIRE IN SCZ MOUNTAINS
2:00 PM 1 [13] [Appended, 14:23:15] [1] BLK SMOKE SEEN
CAL FIRE SLO reported the fire had grown from 250 acres to 500 acres in about an hour Friday afternoon. Updated at 3:30.
I think it has blown past that, now. Winds kicked it up and out of the containment lines. Not good with this heat.
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Here’s the KSBW report from their site on the Santa Cruz fire(s): SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —
A wildfire ignited in Santa Cruz near DeLaveaga Golf Course and Santa Cruz County’s 911 dispatch emergency command center at 2 p.m. Friday.
CalFire Deputy Chief Jake Hess told KSBW that the blaze was about 2 acres wide at its peak and burned in an area with a lot of fuel to feed the fire.
Witnesses said the fire spread “rapidly.” A large smoke plume was visible from as far away as Aptos.
The closest home to the blaze was 500 yards away, but the fire burnt up and away from local neighborhoods. Firemen halted the blaze before it threatened homes.
CalFire helicopters and an air tanker made retardant and water drops to prevent the blaze from spreading into a nearby neighborhood.
A second small wildfire ignited nearby, but firefighters were able to quickly douse it, and refocus on the De Laveaga fire.
Firefighters halted the DeLaveaga blaze from spreading by 3:30 p.m., containing it 1/2 acre by 6 p.m. No injuries were reported.
An upwards of 80 firemen are still present at the scene, and fire crews will monitor the blaze for another 4 to 8 hours.
North Branciforte Avenue and Upper Park Road were closed to traffic for more than an hour.
Investigators have not yet determined what sparked the wildfire.