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Firefighters Now Have 60% Containment Of Brush Fire Near Highway 101 On South Coast

(Ventura County Fire Department)
Containment of the Olivas Fire in Ventura County was up to 50% as of midday Friday

A brush fire which at one point sent smoke billowing across Highway 101 in Ventura County during the morning communte is now 60% contained.

The Olivas Fire started just after 4 a.m. Friday in the Santa Clara River bed, near the Highway 101-Victoria Avenue interchange.  No structures were threatened.  

But, the rugged terrain and lack of access to the area on the Ventura-Oxnard border has made the 200 acre plus blaze tough to fight.

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.