Dry brush and strong winds – a tough combination for Santa Barbara County Firefighters working to contain a quickly-moving wildfire that’s exploding in size since igniting yesterday afternoon ABC’s Matt Gutman reports “the fire exploded overnight, going from 50 acres eight hours ago to nearly 6000 acres. Now a couple of hundred firefighters out here all of this is being driven by the wind – in fact, the wind was so ferocious overnight that the firefighting aircraft that we typically see that put down the fire they couldn’t get up there there are fires burning across the landscape here the terrain is very rugged – hard for firefighters to get to a couple of bulldozers on the ridge. The plume of smoke sent up by this fire big enough to be seen by the international space station.” At last report, the Alisal Fire was 6,000 acres, and zero percent contained.
