On Friday evening, incident commanders described the Alisal Fire to be 16,901 acres and 41 percent containment, unchanged from the morning. The calm winds allowed 19 aircraft to attack the fire to such an extent that evacuation orders were canceled for Arroyo Quemada Lane. Also canceled Friday evening was the evac warning for the area on the fire's eastern flank: between El Capitan State Park and Dos Pueblos Canyon Road, aka Naples, from West Camino Cielo down to the ocean.
The most active section today was in the corner of Gaviota closest to the 101 headed toward Lompoc, but hot spots smoldered deep in the canyons, sending up "smokes" from interior pockets of heat that helicopters were zeroing in on, said Kristen Allison with Orange County Fire.
On the Alisal Fire map, much of the central portions are now colored black, indicating that firefighters have those sections well in hand, either because of a soaking with fire retardant along West Camino Cielo or the "Great Pacific Fuel Break," otherwise known as the ocean, as County Fire Battalion Chief Chris Childers called it at the Friday morning briefing .
