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Firefighters are getting the upper hand on a brush fire burning on the Central Coast

The view of a brush fire burning south of Buellton from a Santa Barbara County Fire Department helicopter.
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
The view of a brush fire burning south of Buellton from a Santa Barbara County Fire Department helicopter.

Blaze burning in hills between Gaviota and Buellton.

Firefighters are now in mopup mode for a brush fire burning off of Highway 101 on the Central Coast.

 The blaze broke out just after 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, just north of the Highway 101-Highway 1 interchange, near the Old Coast Highway.

 No structures have been reported damaged, but some were said to be initially threatened in the rural area south of Buellton. Firefighters used air tankers, and helicopters to help fight the fire.

It's burned about 100 acres of brush. By 3:30, the aircraft being used to fight the blaze were released. There’s no word on the cause of the blaze.

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.