Firefighters say they've reached 45% containment as of Tuesday morning on the Alamo brush fire in Santa Barbara County, up from 20% Monday night.
The fire has burned about 29,000 acres of bush northeast of Santa Maria, near Twitchell Reservoir. The fire's size remained virtually the same overnight Monday into Tuesday. One structure has been destroyed. The fire has been burning since last Thursday, which much of the fire in rugged, hard to get to terrain.
Firefighters say the extreme fire conditions of last week have eased, and cooler weather and decreased wind of aided their efforts to control the Alamo Fire, as well as the Whittier Fire near Lake Cachuma.