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Firefighters who have converged on California from throughout the nation face an ominous weather forecast as a large swath of the state is expected to be enveloped in severe heat beginning Monday.

Firefighter Brian Britton of Ojai throws flares onto a hillside during a back-burn operation Sunday along Highway 1 in Big Sur.

Firefighters in California who got some help from the cooler weather on Sunday now have to suffer through warmer days.

Firefighters headed into their sixth day battling the so-called Gap fire in Santa Barbara County, with a lull in winds presenting an opportunity to contain key areas of the blaze before extreme temperatures and ...

At Saturday evening's Command Briefing - 'an event that is held every morning and evening at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., right before each crew's 12-hour shift - 'excitement and anticipation showed in the faces and ...

California firefighters are taking advantage of a "weather window" to get a better grip on the 13-square-mile wildfire in Santa Barbara County.

GOLETA, Calif. -- Driven overnight by 'sundowner' winds that gusted to 50 mph, the Gap fire grew to more than 8,300 acres, but by morning was 24% contained, fire officials said.

Cooler temperatures and marine fog allowed firefighters in Big Sur to gain some ground Saturday on an obstinate wildfire that wiped out this world-famous coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade.

More than 500 firefighters from Yucaipa to Upland have been sent to battle hundreds of wildfires around the state.

The daily briefings about the Gap Fire are starting to reveal which politicos are in and which want to be.

A fast-moving wildfire that consumed some 6,600 acres rained smoke and ash from the mountains Friday, leaving residents here wondering whether a stiffer breeze would come up to sweep the blaze into their ...

"The Farmers Mobile Claims Center Bus located at: -0- San Marcos High School 4750 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93110 MCC is situated at the corner of Turnpike and Hollister," noted Bill Matlock, Executive ...

Shortly after the area affected by the Gap Fire was declared a state of emergency today, the City of Goleta cancelled its Independence Day festivities, including the 34th annual Old Fashioned Fourth of July ...

A fast-moving fire in Goleta, Calif., just north of Santa Barbara, has forced nearly 2,000 residents from their homes, as a shift in winds and the availability of timber fuel combined on Friday to trump fires ...

The Big Basin Complex Fire continued to move toward Highway 1 in Big Sur on Friday July 4, 2008.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger extended California's state of emergency Thursday, declaring disaster status in Santa Barbara county where a wildfire threatened the coastal community of Goleta.

The fires that bedevil California took another ominous turn Thursday as a blaze near Goleta triggered more evacuations and authorities shut another 10 miles of Highway 1 along the flaming Big Sur coast.

GOLETA, Calif. -- The Gap fire looming over this town has grown to more than 2,400 acres this morning, doubling in size overnight as it burned for its third day.

The most imminent danger was to homes around Goleta, near Santa Barbara, where one fire was fast approaching 2,600 homes and transmission lines supplying power to 100,000 people on the central coast.

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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, AN EVACUATION ORDER HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL RESIDENTS NORTH OF PATTERSON AVENUE BETWEEN FAIRVIEW AVENUE AND PATTERSON AVENUES.

Goleta threatened: Flames were fast approaching 2,600 homes and transmission lines supplying power to 100,000 people on the central coast.

As a wildfire feeding on half-century-old brush posed a threat Thursday to 200 canyon homes in the Santa Ynez Mountains above communities in Santa Barbara County, a blaze broke out in Yucaipa.

A large wildfire burns out of control above a water treatment plant in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Goleta, Calif.

Wildfires raging in northern and southern California are overcoming firefighting attempts to control them and are threatening area populations, officials said.

A mandatory order still stands for Glen Annie Canyon and La Patera Canyon. Surrounding neighborhoods have been put on alert.

Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 15:45. It's a great day for California sportsmen and a bad day for California deer.

Santa Barbara School Districts have confirmed that all Summer school classes being held at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta have been canceled because of the Gap Fire.

Weary crews battling wildfires across northern and central California are going to get help from the National Guard, the first time the military has been called to ground-based firefighting duty since 1977.

Pursuant of a formal Mutual Aid Request, the Los Angeles Fire Department has assigned one Strike Team of Firefighters to assist the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, U.S. Forest Service and allied agencies ...

A tanker makes the first drop on the July 1 fire near West Camino Cielo. Wildfire Burns Above Goleta Flames Visible from Santa Barbara; Evacuations Ordered for La Patera and Glen Annie Canyons; Other Residents ...

Santa Barbara County and Forest Service firefighters are battling a vegetation fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Goleta.

SPOILERS: The Goleta City Council could throw a wrench in Measure A should it choose to put its own sales tax on November's ballot.

For Goleta Real Estate North area of Santa Barbara Real Estate the Price Range Statistics for 1/1/2008 to 6/20/2008 show that there are currently 82 Home Estate/PUDs on the market with an Average List Price of ...

For as long as most can remember, 87-year-old Jess Martinez has opened the doors of St.