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Firefighters have upper hand on nearly 1400 acre brush fire in remote area of Santa Barbara County

The Hill Fire burning in eastern Santa Barbara County Tuesday afternoon.
Santa Barbara County Fire Department
The Hill Fire burning in eastern Santa Barbara County Tuesday afternoon.

Containment now up to 70% on Hill Fire, southeast of New Cuyama.

Firefighters are moving into mop up mode on a nearly 1400 acre brush fire in a remote area of eastern Santa Barbara County.

The Hill Fire has been burning since Tuesday afternoon southeast of New Cuyama. Some homes were threatened, but no damage was reported.

About 300 firefighters were working on the fire Thursday afternoon.

Containment is now up to 70%. There’s no word on the cause of the fire.

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.