Gap Fire Timeline

Tuesday, July 1

5:32 p.m.: Vegetation fire reported at Windy Gap-erroneously, as Windy Gap is on the Santa Barbara side of San Marcos Pass. Once a fire is given a name it sticks, so it remained the Gap Fire.

5:44 p.m.: First helicopter, from Santa Barbara, drops water on fire, whose origin was in steep terrain near Lizard’s Mouth, in steep chaparral about four miles south of West Camino Cielo Road.