Homeless Camp Fire Behind Turnpike Shopping Center
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 50x50 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.
By Roger the Scanner Guy
2:25 p.m., February 26, 2021
Homeless encampment fire behind Vons at 189 South Turnpike.
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Feb 26, 2021 02:27 PMNear CVS Actually was a call in for a smoke investigation now a fire call..
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Feb 26, 2021 02:29 PMI see it.....awful to have these fires with high winds predicted.
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Feb 26, 2021 02:31 PMThanks for telling me trying to make sense of this scratchy scanner..
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Feb 26, 2021 02:34 PMBeen listening too not sure what's really going on there either
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Feb 26, 2021 02:42 PMI'm glad I'm not the only one who cannot tell..
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Feb 26, 2021 02:33 PMAccording to J.P. It's a small incident.
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Feb 26, 2021 02:44 PMSmoke is gone...was black, then white...out I hope
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Feb 26, 2021 02:55 PMI’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.
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Feb 26, 2021 04:11 PMthat's a helluva way to do it. remind me - why do we pay taxes ?
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Feb 26, 2021 02:59 PMI heard them say it was knocked down alittle while ago.
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Feb 26, 2021 04:30 PMWhat is wrong with residents of Goleta that they are willing to put up with almost daily fire threats to their community.
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Feb 26, 2021 05:43 PMTurnpike is still in SB... and it's not so simple is it?
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Feb 26, 2021 05:44 PMTurnpike is in the unincorporated area of the Goleta Valley, often referred to by locals as "Noleta."
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Feb 27, 2021 02:52 AMUnincorporated Eastern Goleta Valley is Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara zip code, Santa Barbara address. Long time locals don’t call it Noleta.
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Feb 27, 2021 10:01 AMActually it is simple. It's not IN Santa Barbara. A ZIP code is not a legal entity, it's merely a "Zone Improvement Plan" for an easy way to route mail. Same as people that know realize that 93108 is not all of Montecito. Turnpike therefore provides service for the County for fire and sheriffs. It's not in the Santa Barbara City limits or any SB City services.
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Feb 26, 2021 10:21 PMHomeless are here to stay. When pandemic is over only difference will be camps are disbursed more often and won't have enough time to settle.