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The Orange County Fire Authority today said they have sent a strike team to assist in battling a wind-driven brush fire in Solimar Beach in Ventura County that has consumed at least 1,250 acres.
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The firefighters’ biggest concern remains the wind, which was blowing at 25- to 35-mph in the area on Saturday. Traffic on a nearby state highway was bumper-to-bumper and moving slowly, a Reuters witness reported.
Responding agencies included the Ventura County Fire Department, Los Angeles County Fire Department, Ventura City Fire Department, Santa Barbara County Fire Department, Santa Paula City Fire Department, CAL-FIRE, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office and California Highway Patrol.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection announced on Saturday morning the fire was only 10% contained as it reached 1,200 acres.
“There was nobody stopping us on the highway as we got closer and closer, so we thought it was totally safe for us to drive past it”, Maaike Maks told CNN.
As of Saturday, some 600 firefighters were at the scene while four helicopters dumped water on the blaze.
A downed power line is believed to have been the culprit for the wildfire, according to Tom Kruschke of the Ventura County Fire Department.
Officials, meanwhile, are still determining what caused the fire.
The Solimar Beach community, with 50 to 60 homes, and a nearby campground were under a mandatory evacuation order.
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“There’s been a little bit of lingering northeast wind up at the fire site, and we’re expecting it to die out pretty rapidly by noon or so”, said David Sweet, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Oxnard.
