Edhat Staff
Update by edhat staff
Santa Barbara County firefighters extinguished a homeless encampment fire off Turnpike Road on Friday afternoon.
At 2:13 p.m., crews responded to the 4900 block of San Simeon in the Noleta area behind the Turnpike shopping center in an area called “Granny Flats.”
Crews discovered a 50×50 foot brush fire in a homeless camp. Two fire engines and a Battalion Chief were able to extinguish the fire without any injuries or structures threatened.
The official cause is under investigation.
Photo: SBCFD
By Roger the Scanner Guy
2:25 p.m., February 26, 2021
Homeless encampment fire behind Vons at 189 South Turnpike.
I’m glad this fire didn’t know injure anyone or cause any property damage. However, since the powers that be won’t allow any maintenance of public spaces, these types of fires are the only means that we have to mitigate the hazardous and volatile overgrowth of vegetative fuels near our neighborhoods and businesses. If they can keep burning out the overgrown brush a little at a time without causing any harm, they will make us all safer.
Unincorporated Eastern Goleta Valley is Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara zip code, Santa Barbara address. Long time locals don’t call it Noleta.