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Air tankers, helicopters help firefighters contain brush fire on Central Coast

Firefighters battled a brush fire in the Los Padres National Forest over the weekend.
Los Padres National Forest
Firefighters battled a brush fire in the Los Padres National Forest over the weekend.

Fire chars about 100 acres of land in Los Padres National Forest.

Firefighters are still doing mop up work on a brush fire in the Los Padres National Forest on the Central Coast.

What’s called the Rinconada Fire started late Friday afternoon just north of Highway 166, about halfway between Santa Maria and Cuyama.

Firefighters aided by air tankers and helicopters had the 100 acre blaze fully contained Saturday night. No structures were damaged. There’s no word on the cause of the fire

Firefighters are still doing mop up work on a brush fire in the Los Padres National Forest on the Central Coast.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.