[Update: Oct. 20, 11 a.m.] As the Alisal Fire grows cold, the larger incident command that took over the fire last Thursday will hand over the management reins this evening to the Type 3 structure leading the fire when it broke out, namely the local U.S. Forest Service and Santa Barbara County Fire. The interagency command and its support staff will be headed to their home bases as of 7 p.m. today.
Their update this morning states that crews will be working in the oak woodland understory along West Camino Cielo above the Arroyo Hondo watershed and in the old Sherpa Fire scar to secure that edge. The total fire size, which increased by 27 acres this morning, was a result of more accurate mapping, not fire growth.
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