RogerUpdate by edhat staff
Santa Barbara County Firefighters and the Lompoc Fire Department responded to the Santa Ynez riverbed near SR-246 and River Park around 1:20 p.m. Sunday.
Crews discovered a one-acre wind-driven fire with a moderate rate of spread.
Around 2:00 p.m., crews on scene reported the fire to be between one and two acres with the forward progress stopped. A helicopter and dozers were cancelled.
No structures were threatened and no evacuations were needed.
The cause is under investigation.
Reported by Roger the Scanner Guy
1:31 p.m., November 3, 2019
Brush fire in the Lompoc riverbed on River Park Road.
I suspect encampments. They do love their drug cooking fires.
Oh hell yes, cooking a spoon of heroin requires a full-on campfire. Coffee maybe; drugs not.