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Yahoo!Last Updated: August 15, 2007 8:00 am
Date/Time Started: July 4, 2007 10:53 am
Administrative Unit: Los Padres National Forest / Santa Barbara County Fire
County: Santa Barbara
Location: 15 miles NE of Buellton
Acres Burned: 105,231 acres
Containment: 58% contained - 105,231 acres. Full containment expected on September 7, 2007.
Structures Destroyed: 1 outbuilding destroyed
Threatened: 483 homes and 112 outbuildings threatened
Zaca Fire Geographic Information
Evacuations: Please call 805-961-5770 for current information on evacuations.
Injuries: 27
Cause: Human
Cooperating Agencies: Santa Barbara County Fire, Los Angeles County Fire, Ventura County Fire, California Highway Patrol, American Red Cross
Total Fire Personnel: 2,888 (846 CAL FIRE)
Fire crews: 73 (31 CAL FIRE)
Engines: 124 (15 CAL FIRE)
Airtankers: 10 (10 CAL FIRE)
Helicopters: 21
Dozers: 35 (8 CAL FIRE)
Water tenders: 71
Costs to date: $71.6 million
Major Incident Command Team: Unified Command
Conditions: The Paradise Road is under an evacuation warning, open to residents only. The Santa Ynez River Recreation Area remains under an evacuation order.
People looking north from the Santa Barbara area will see a huge towering column of smoke. This column results from active burning on the Zaca Fire. The actively burning area is in the Judell and Logan Canyon area, approximately 25 miles from the South Coast communities. The fire is burning away from the South Coast and represents no threat to these communities. Citizens can expect to see more of these columns as the interior of this fire continues to burn for the next week or more. There has been no movement toward the Santa Barbara area for several days and the southern edge of the fire is currently secure.
The evacuation order for residents of the Paradise Road community, Los Prietos Boys Camp, Paradise Store and the Rancho Oso Guest Ranch has been downgraded to an evacuation warning effective Sunday, August 12 at 7:00 p.m. The Lower Santa Ynez River Recreation Area campgrounds, day use areas and trailheads will remain closed.
PLEASE CALL 805-961-5770 FOR THE MOST CURRENT EVACUATION AND FIRE INFORMATION.
Phone Numbers: (805) 961-5770 (Zaca Fire Information)
All the infomation in this update, and many more resources, are available at California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection.
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Where can you find a map online which shows the Don Victor Jeepway and Hildreth Jeepway?
Earl (anonymous profile)
August 15, 2007 at 12:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
go to:
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=34.6...
you will see Potrero Seco off to the left.
at center of map, (w/red cross), the four wheel drive road splits into Don Victor Fire trail to the west and the Hildreth four wheel road to the south west.
p.s. have you checked out:
http://maps.google.com/maps/msie=UTF8&am...
and all of the option links
packer (anonymous profile)
August 15, 2007 at 3:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
oops, Potrero Seco is on the right of the map, (not left), east of the fork of Don Victor & Hildreth
packer (anonymous profile)
August 15, 2007 at 3:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
A nice resource for finding places in the SB backcountry is the Whipple Well GPS database:
http://www.calsign.com/mining/
I didn't know where Logan and Judell Canyons are, so I looked them up here:
http://www.calsign.com/mining/countydata...
Then plugged the coordinates into Google Earth to see where they're at in relation to other placemarks in my personal "Places" file. Turns out these canyons are just west of Big Pine Mtn.
GPS-savy users will want to note that Whipple Well's coordinates use a different datum than what Google Earth uses, but coordinates should be close enough.
EastBeach (anonymous profile)
August 15, 2007 at 4:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Here's a couple of good websites that describe the trails and other areas in our forest:
http://www.lpforest.org/trails/hildreth_...
http://santabarbarahikes.com/index.shtml...
LRaf (anonymous profile)
August 15, 2007 at 9:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
And let's not forget this one, by our favorite fire reporter (if I'm not mistaken):
http://www.sb-outdoors.org/
You can read much about previous SB fires at this link on the same site:
http://www.sb-outdoors.org/Interpretive/...
Bargs (anonymous profile)
August 15, 2007 at 10:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Local boy, Bryan Conant, made a great hiking map of the San Rafael Wilderness that includes most of the canyons and drainages mentioned during the course of the fire. I'd recommend picking up a copy at any local outfitter-type store of from him directly on-line.
http://www.bryanconant.com/
honest_mike (anonymous profile)
August 16, 2007 at 8:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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