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Housing and Development Newsletter As of 2:30 p.m., engine companies were putting in hose lines on the left and right flanks of the fire to knock down the flames, Bertucelli said, and a water-dropping helicopter was called in to assist. A total of four engines, with one engine from the Lompoc City Fire Department, one water tender, one battalion chief, and a helicopter were all deployed to the scene, according to Bertucelli. Although the blaze was initially reported as a spreading prescribed burn, the cause of the fire is being investigated, he said.  No further details were available. — ...

LOMPOC, Calif. - Fire crews responded to a report of a brush fire burning near Lompoc Friday afternoon. It happened just before 2 p.m. on the 3500 block of Jalama Road. Lompoc Fire Department and the Santa Barbara County Fire Department responded to the area with multiple units. Santa Barbara County Fire Captain Daniel Bertucelli said the fire was a controlled burn that appeared to jump containment. Fire crews worked to put out flames and put down containment lines around the fire. By 2:30 p.m. the fire had burned about half an acre with potential to burn up to one acre. No structures were...

| 8:30 a.m. The good news continues to pile up in the protracted war against the coronavirus, and Noozhawk’s Brooke Holland provided a snapshot of the gains in this week’s COVID-19 Update email. There was definitely a setback with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which the government has paused after “six confirmed U.S. cases” of a rare and severe blood clot were reported among the nearly 7 million J&J doses administered. But as of this week, about half of Santa Barbara County’s residents age 16 and older have received at least one COVID-19 shot, and 21 percent of the county’s 446,...

Victim was Jean-Denis Muys, 58, of Menlo Park, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau

Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a single-vehicle crash.