| Reminder from: | californiadisasters Yahoo Group | |
| Title: | 1985 Las Pilitas Fire | |
| Date: | Tuesday July 1, 2014 | |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm (GMT-08.00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) | |
| Location: | San Luis Obispo Co./Los Padres National Forest | |
| Notes: | This afternoon at about this time in 1985 an automobile sparked a fire that would go on to burn for over a week and scorch 74,640 acres and burn 12 homes. At one point it would jump the Salinas Reservoirs/Santa Margarita Lake en route to running up into the Los Padres National Forest. It forced US101 to be closed for multiple days and a 7,000+ acre firing operation to be conducted to keep it from jumping the freeway to the west. This same area would be 9 years later in the Highway 41 but that fire would successfully jump US101 from the west to the east On the 8th, pushed by strong down-slope winds in the wee hours of the morning it would make a major run at the eastern margins of the City and San Luis Obispo forcing firefighters to house-to-house fight it in resident's backyards. | |
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