Anonymous
Update by edhat staff
Santa Barbara County firefighters are currently battling a 150-acre brush fire in the Happy Canyon area.
At 10:39 p.m., fire crews received a call of two potential brush fires. One was described in the Happy Canyon area and another described behind Lake Cachuma. At 12:10 a.m., Public Information Officer Daniel Bertucelli confirmed there is one fire, called the Range Incident as it’s near the gun range off Happy Canyon Road.
As of 2:00 a.m. Monday, the fire has reportedly grown to over 50 acres. Firefighters are actively engaged with the brush fire and roads are closed in the area with the latest numbers stated the fire has reached 150 acres.
Latest unofficial reports state the fire is 50% contained with forwarding progress halted.
Edhat will update this article with more information as it becomes available.
#RangeInc Update. 25-30 acres. Fire is burning actively. 2nd alarm veg response by SBC as well as LP resources on scene. pic.twitter.com/wKj17yZaLx
— Daniel Bertucelli (@SBCFireInfo) July 29, 2019
Is there a brush fire near the Happy Canyon area?
It was 150 acres at 3:00 am and sounds like it’s contained now.
Was somebody out there shooting at midnight-1am to start this fire?
No the numbers you quoted were misinformed. They didn’t even have an incident commander on scene at that time much less resources to contain a 150 acre fire.
Daniel Bertucelli with SBCF info ( CO. Fire PIO ) reported 50 acres at 2:00 am, at 2:50 am it was reported at 150 acres from someone on the scene and later down graded to 100 acres. If you’ve followed incidents like this you would know it’s always a fluid situation and variable until daylight when accurate mapping can be done. Forward progress is stopped and containment at 50% at last report. Yes that is also subject to change.