Santa Barbara CA wildfires force 4000 - 6000 campers to flee

This report on inciweb.org seems the most current and accurate. The site gets heavy use and takes time to load:

http://inciweb.org/incident/3394/

Note that the number of "evacuees", whether residents, campers, other, is estimated at 2000-3000 by the sheriff's department, and frankly, with that big a discrepancy in the estimate, who knows?

The fire area is sparsely populated, and there are few "campgrounds". The Los Padres NF website mentions nothing (when I looked an hour or so ago, anyway) except the closure of Paradise Road.

News reports are notoriously inaccurate; most of the "reporters" shoot from the hip with whatever baloney they're fed, then use subsequent reports to backtrack and "correct" previously-given information.

It's going to be long, tough, destructive fire season in California.:(

It's NEVER a good way to end up a camping trip, being chased away by fire. We were forced out of St Mary Campground in Glacier National Park a few years back. The smoke had been getting worse and worse for the last couple of days so we weren't really wanting to stay around any longer anyway but other area campgrounds filled up quickly from folks moving.

the bear II wrote:
Well there they go again... it was 4000 to 6000 residents and campers. Mostly residents. It's too bad the news reporters get excited and give out the wrong information.

It's a gaff every news agency has committed. Still, we send up our prayers for these folks.

Well there they go again... it was 4000 to 6000 residents and campers. Mostly residents. It's too bad the news reporters get excited and give out the wrong information.