Woke up this morning to see the Lake Fire had exploded overnight to over 4,000 acres. Heavy smoke in the area too.
Photo credit George rose
Watch duty
Calvary arrived via air this morning.
Fire is now 12,000+ acres and 0 containment.
Photo credit George rose
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Where is this?
Way south of us. The fire is north of Los Olivos.
Just checked Watch Duty and a lot of resources are dedicated to this one.
Got it. Will he driving by there on Tuesday.
Over 12K acres burned as of earlier today but no updates for a number of hours now . . .
Ash is falling in Los Olivos and points west, all the way to the ocean.
Pretty dense brush with steep hillsides up there - burning away from population but we’ll have ton wait and see.
A fire ina similar area about 15 years ago burned 250k acres . . .
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How’s the smoke your way Larry? Hearing it’s pretty bad west of the fire.
Maybe there should be a different thread, as this one isn’t Sonoma/Napa…
Mods??
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So far, okay. Some ash has fallen in Los Olivos and points west. Tomorrow is a key day in terms of direction of the fire . . .
Cheers
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Maybe just change the name of the thread? Hopefully we don’t have so many fires in Napa and Sonoma that we need our own thread.
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Glad to see it is burning in undeveloped land. That’s a plus. Hardest part is dealing with the smoke for the month or so that it lingers when these big fires happen. Just saps all the energy out of you. Stay safe and healthy out there Larry.
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Up to nearly 20k acres. It is moving towards some ranches and has burned a few cabins up Fig Mtn. Still about 5 miles from Los Olivos but very close to the old Neverland Ranch (now called Sycamore Valley Ranch).
Cheers
There’s some bad juju there.
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I remember the OG Zaca Fire back in 2007. I hiked up to the front range ridge line with a few friends to watch the fire burn in the backcountry, thinking it might be a once in a lifetime view.
The next several years the Tea, Gap and Jesusita Fires all burned on the front range to the edge of the city. The Thomas Fire finished off the fuel that hadn’t burned a decade earlier.
The Lake Fire looks like it’s burning outside of the Zaca Fire scar. A couple of my favorite campgrounds, Davy Brown and Nira, look like they will or have already burned. Like the Zaca Fire, this looks like it will be long lived, since the terrain is rugged and has limited road access.
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Whatever the air quality like along the coast? Supposed to stop tonight in SB.
Agree - it’s gonna burn for awhile for sure. Just hoping for favorable winds. Visibility has been a challlenge at times, limiting some of the super big tankers - but a bunch of helicoptors have been working full stop . . .
Cheers
My understanding that it’s fine down in SB right now . . .
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Hey Alan - I was in Santa Barbara the past few days, and the high sky was very hazy, but the air at sea level was pretty smoke free. We kept our windows closed to be on the safe side but I don’t think it was necessary.
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The EPA has a free app called AirNow which i quite useful for current air quality readings based on their monitoring.
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Here’s the Lake fire details. Burning right off Foxen Canyon Road in the hills to the east of Zaca Mesa winery
There are a lot of resources on this already.