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Nacimiento-Fergusson Road is the only road across the Santa Lucia Range on the Central Coast of California, connecting California State Route 1 and the Big Sur coast to U.S. Route 101 and the Salinas Valley. [1] The road is well-paved and maintained over its length, but is winding and has precipitous drops.
The Basin Complex Fire was a massive wildfire near Big Sur that ignited on June 21, 2008, and was the result of a lightning strike. It eventually grew to 162,818 acres (658.90 km 2), becoming the second-largest wildfire of the 2008 California wildfire season and burning most of the Ventana Wilderness.
The largest madrone in the United States was burned and possibly killed by the 2016 Soberanes Fire. Bulldozer operator Robert Reagan, 35, of Fresno County, died July 26, 2016, when his bulldozer overturned while he was building a fire line near Palo Colorado Canyon in Big Sur.
The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 33 square miles. That’s half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles.
Crews with Big Sur Fire, Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service quickly contained the blazes while they were still small, said Matt Harris, chief of the volunteer Big Sur brigade. According to ...
A section of Highway 1 in Big Sur has disappeared. One lane of the highway was struck by debris flow and washed away, Caltrans reported. The road continues to erode as debris and water continues ...
The Dolan Fire was a large wildfire that burned in the Big Sur region and other parts of the Santa Lucia mountain range in Monterey County, California, in the United States as part of the 2020 California wildfire season. The fire began at approximately 8:15 p.m. on August 18, 2020.
Takeyama was last seen on Jan. 7, the day the fire started, in Malibu, and had been reported missing, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bulletin. Carolyn Burns