The holiday weekend saw Santa Barbara County firefighters putting out a blaze caused by fireworks on the Fourth and two fires along Highway 101.
Fireworks shows were canceled up and down the South Coast, but Santa Barbara resounded with booms and sky-lit sparkles from dusk onward on Saturday. One landed on a carport on Westmoreland Place in Goleta, not far from Cathedral Oaks and Carlo Drive, resulting in calls to the fire department around 9:50 p.m. An aggressive attack on the burning carport kept the fire in check, said Captain Daniel Bertucelli, and prevented it from spreading to the attached house and attic where it was headed.
Earlier the evening of July 4, a single vehicle rolled over into the brush off the northbound 101, just west of Tajiguas on the Gaviota Coast. The brush was alight after the SUV caught fire around 6 p.m., and two engine companies, a truck crew, and a battalion chief responded. The driver was able to get out of the car, and Bertucelli reported the individual had minor injuries. Crews kept the fire to a half acre.
