Two wildfires in BEU area

One is just south of the Lockwood exit on the 101:

Incident: 00184 Type: Report of Fire Location: Us101 N / Lockwood Loc Desc: NB Lat/Lon: 36.092778 -121.020000

Detail Information
3:19 PM	4	[10] TRANS TO MTRY COM
3:16 PM	3	[5] [Appended, 15:17:21] [1] SMALL VEG FIRE STARTING ON RHS APPROX 1 JSO LOCKWOOD SAN LUCAS
3:16 PM	2	[2] FIRE ENRT
3:16 PM	1	[1] FIRE STARTING ON EAST SIDE OF HWY, JSO LOCKWOOD EXIT

The second is Coyote (near Panoche, I think?), which is much more complex. VLAT 914 is over it per IC “no divert on all air craft due to imminent life threat. SO enroute to assist with evacuations.” Winds and critical ROS towards houses.

Here is a topo of the area. The fire ignition point was where indicated on map. Lots of ranches in the area to evacute.

Coyote Fire, 7/15/20

700 acrs, potential 3000-4000, dangerous rate of spread
two dozers enroute, one from MMU, the other from LPF. I am going to start a separate post on this one, as it is quite serious with the winds.

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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Shirley Ward says:

July 15, 2020 at 10:12 pm

Thank you for keeping us up to date re fires and other incidents. Feeing very grateful for the multiple services you provide to Big Sur and surrounding communities.