Hot Weather, Winds Hamper Santa Lucia Firefighting Efforts Near Lompoc
Full control of the 35-acre blaze is estimated for Sunday night, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department
Firefighters work to contain and control the Santa Lucia Fire burning near Lompoc. (Mike Eliason / Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
July 10, 2021
| 5:33 p.m.
Hot weather and pesky winds plagued firefighters and delayed their estimates for containment and control of the 35-acre Santa Lucia Fire near Lompoc.
Crews from multiple agencies were dispatched at about 1:40 p.m. Friday to the vegetation fire that was reported in the area of Santa Lucia Canyon Road and Klein Boulevard near the Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex and Vandenberg Village, according to Mike Eliason, spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
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Since December, the Lompoc prisons have suspended visiting at the facilities for an undetermined length of time.
The Lompoc federal penitentiary has 851 medium-security inmates plus another 317 at the minimum-security prison camps on site. The neighboring FCI houses 902 low-security inmates.
COVID-19 cases have been rising on the Central Coast, both inside and outside jails and prisons, in recent weeks.
The California Men’s Colony, a state prison in San Luis Obispo, has had 1,755 confirmed cases since the pandemic began. Currently, the CMC has 941 active cases in custody after seeing few during the early months of COVID-19 last spring.