Large wildfires burn near Santa Barbara and Highway 74


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300 some acre fire but just east to be up here in Iowa there's over a thousand acre fire burning right up of Highway 74. Yeah, yeah, I just rolled off the 215 onto the 10 and yeah, I kind of got you know full horizon smoke smoke to the south coming over the mountains over there, smoke up on top of the the hill there by Big Bear and looking out there through the Banning Pass area, there's smoke there too. Comment? And go ahead, comment. And speaking of fires, this is (name withheld), KJ6MID, Santa Barbara, just north of Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Santa Luas, Obispo area. 72,000 acre fire, only 3% contained, been going for about four days now. Yeah, I've been watching that one for a while. I knew about that one, but yeah, that's a monster. at KJ6MID. Yeah, my cousins have been doing loops. He flies for Neptune Aviation, the tankers. You know, he's doing four or five drops on his fire, then shooting over, doing drops on that fire, and kind of moving them around. Yeah, these guys are going to get a workout. And it's not even fire season yet.
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Santa Maria, CA
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