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Plane crash triggers brush fires on Central Coast

A plane crash in Santa Barbara County triggered a pair of brush fires Saturday night.
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
A plane crash in Santa Barbara County triggered a pair of brush fires Saturday night.

Pilot escapes without serious injury.

Authorities are investigating a light plane crash which sparked two brush fires on the Central Coast.

A biplane crashed just west of Orcutt Saturday night. The plane ended up upside down, but the pilot escaped without being seriously injured.

The crash triggered a pair of brush fires, which burned just over two acres. Santa Barbara County firefighters were able to control the flames in about a half hour. No homes were damaged by the fires.

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.