Edhat Staff
Santa Barbara County firefighters extinguished a fire under the Turnpike Road overpass on Tuesday afternoon.
At 4:10 p.m. crews responded to the area under the Highway 101 southbound lanes, adjacent to the railroad tracks, for a reported fire.
Crews discovered an “encampment fire” along with a large collection of clothing and items including bicycle parts, food waste, and shopping carts.
The fire was extinguished within ten minutes. There were no reported injuries.
Traffic was slow int he area for a period of time due to the emergency response and smoke from the fire.
Highway 101 and the railroad remained open. The official cause of the fire is under investigation.
Well, I’m glad the Fireperson was OK.
Not so sure as it states: “The firefighter was extinguished within ten minutes”… as in “Snuffed out”?
Glad we have had rain but I fear one of these days…
be sure to vote yes on prop 1 to tax yourself 6.1 BILLION dollars to clean up this mess !
Not included here is the fact that the fire was intentional, and not a cooking or warming fire; two people identified the person who started it, and deputies and a fire investigator later contacted him. Unknown if there was an arrest.
I hope the Sheriff’s Office follows up with a statement on this.
JB89–unclear what you mean by “the fire was intentional and not a cooking or warming fire”. If so, doesn’t that make it pretty likely that what we have is a mental health problem, not a criminal one? And garfish, wouldn’t it be money well spent to help avoid such incidents by caring for the needy in this population? (I assume you have not had problem with spending many many many more billions of dollars on prisons and jails.)