From www.washingtonpost.com:
Big Sur (CA) (AP) — Officials are hopeful that California’s Big Sur region wildfire will soon be fully contained after the flames destroyed more than a dozen homes and forced about 100 people to evacuate.
As of Wednesday night, the fire had charred about 1 1/3 square miles of territory and was 74 percent contained, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Lynn Olson said.
Mark Nunez, the incident commander in charge of the team fighting the fire, said 1,007 firefighters have assisted in battling the fire. The Forest Service has spent nearly $1 million to fight it, according to spokeswoman Kathleen Phelps.
Calm winds helped crews as they closed in on the Pfeiffer Fire in Los Padres National Forest near state Highway 1.
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