Santa Barbara: More than 1,300 firefighters, assisted by water dumping water and fireproof, work on Thursday to load fire in the South California coast mountains who have closed the main highway for days.
Alisal fire has breathed more than 26 square miles (67 square kilometers) from Chaparral and Grass in the Santa Ynez mountains west of Santa Barbara because it erupted on Monday in the middle of the wind.
This is 11% contained.
Authorities said the fire was a threat to around 100 livestock and isolated houses.
Among the protected traits were Rancho del Cielo, which was once owned by Ronald and Nancy Reagan and used as their Western retreat during his presidency.
Animal Husbandry 688 hectares (278 hectares) sit above the mountain range.
The wind when the fire brokeed to dissect the fire on the mountainous face to the Pacific Ocean and the fire reached the beach after jumping over the US 101 highway and the railway line.
The wind since then shifted but was less intense.
The firefighters on Thursday focused on stopping the fire movement to the west after the wind pushed him there on Wednesday, said the Allison Christian firefighting information officer.
The plane dropped a long line of fireproof along the Ridgetop road to help keep fire so as not to move north and the fire burn spread the fire movement to the east.
Older scars lying west.
“Furthermore, this fire moves east and west it will move to several fires from fire from fire before, so the areas will not have almost the amount of fuel so that the fire works,” said Andrew Madsen, an information officer with Los Padres National Forest.
The fire remained about half a mile (0.8 kilometers) from former Reagan Ranch on Thursday, said Jessica Jensen, a Young America’s Foundation official, a conservative organization that now operates a farm.
The foundation has stated trust in steps to keep the farm property safe.
The train line reopened on Thursday afternoon but the US 101 remained closed.
Elsewhere, Gusty’s wind, low moisture and dry vegetation triggered a red flag warning of high fires in several parts of the northern California interior.
Pacific Gas Electric was originally planned to cut power to thousands of customers in various districts on Thursday to prevent fires from being thrown by damage to the power line.
But the utility said the events of the wind seemed weaker than those caused thousands of closure on Monday and then quickly increased the plan of the latest forced blackouts.
Towards midday, customers in some parts only one district faces notice of potential power shutoff.
California forest fires have scorched nearly 3,900 square miles (10,101 square kilometers) this year and destroyed more than 3,600 homes, businesses and other structures, according to the Forestry Protection Department and state fires.
Historical droughts in West America are bound to climate change making forest fires more difficult to fight for.
It has killed millions of trees in California.
Scientists say climate change has made the Westers warmer and more dried in the last 30 years and will continue to make more extreme weather and forest fires more often and destructive.
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