People who live on the California coast were still being evacuated from their homes on Sunday as a wildfire broke out in a canyon near Huge Sur, shutting down a part of the state’s historic Pacific Coast Freeway in each direction.
On Sunday morning, Cecile Juliette, a spokeswoman for the California Division of Forestry and Fire Safety, told the Associated Press that strong winds had slowed down. Juliette said that this allowed firefighters to get better control of the flames.
As of noon on Sunday, CalFire said that the blaze had burned 1,050 acres and was only 25% contained. It was called the Colorado Fire.
There was a wildfire in the Palo Colorado Canyon late on Friday. Then, wind gusts of up to 50 mph pushed it toward the coast.
By CalFire’s account, the fire broke into a building in one place. There is a section of Freeway 1 between Garrapata Creek and Level Sur that is always closed in each of the steps.
It was “reasonable” how the fire was behaving. It ran late Saturday nite and into Sunday morning, with some trees being torched by the wind. Cal Fire wrote about the fire on its website.
On Sunday, crews will keep building and improving containment lines and cleaning up hot spots.
Social media images from Saturday show flames coming from the Bixby Bridge, which has been used in TV shows and movies, like HBO’s “Huge Little Lies.”
Since November, California has had a lot of problems with wildfire threats because of strong Santa Ana winds. Seasonal dry winds caused strong gusts, which led to wildfire warnings for more than 17 million people and tens of thousands of power outages in the area.
The state had to fight the Dixie Fire last summer, which started on July 13 and grew into the second-largest single fire in the state’s history, burning 963,309 acres until late October.
It was decided this month that the Dixie Fire started because of electrical lines owned by Pacific Gasoline and Electrical Company. This is what they said.
