Overview

• The wildfire has scorched nearly 80,000 acres in rural San Luis Obispo County with containment stalled at about 10 percent.
• Over 600 firefighting personnel, multiple air tankers and roughly 150 National Guard troops have been deployed to establish control lines.
• Mandatory evacuation orders now affect over 200 residents and place around 50 structures at risk from the rapidly moving blaze.
• Thick smoke plumes have drifted into metropolitan Los Angeles, prompting the South Coast Air Quality Management District to issue health advisories.
• The fire’s edge is encroaching on the Carrizo Plain National Monument’s sensitive ecosystems while CalFire investigators continue to probe its cause.