Evacuation information. Willow Fire map and updates. A wildfire tearing across a dry, parched landscape in the mountains of California’s Big Sur region, grew to more than 2,000 acres in 24 hours. Containment is zero percent. Amid a suffocating heat wave gripping the West, firefighters are hiking in to reach the blaze that’s burning in remote steep terrain and aircraft are overhead dropping fire retardent. The Willow Fire started at 8:10 p.m. on Thursday, June 17, in the Ventana Wilderness northwest of the Arroyo Seco Recreation Area and about three miles away from the Tassajara Zen Center, according to the incident report from the U.S. Forest Service. Flames spread amid moderate winds on Friday, and by evening the fire’s footprint was over 2,000 acres. The blaze was expected to increase in size overnight but the Los Padres National Forest that’s managing the fire had yet to release an update on acreage burned Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. More than 300 people have been evacuated from the Tassajara Zen Center to China Camp, and you can find the latest evacuation information here. Evacuation warnings are in effect for areas north of Arroyo Seco Campground to Anastasia Canyon; west of Carmel Valley… Read full this story
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