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April 17, 2024

Calfire keeps fighting south county blaze

Calfire as of early Friday morning continued fighting the Beaver Fire in south San Benito County.

Calfire Tuesday evening started fighting the Beaver Fire off Coalinga Road and Airline Highway east of King City.

As of 5:51 a.m. Friday, Calfire had updated the incident report to show 215 acres and 70 percent contained.

The Airline and Eastern fires, nearby in south San Benito County, started the evening of June 4 but were out as of Monday at 6:14 p.m., according to the Calfire incidents database.

The Airline Fire burned 1,314 acres, while the Eastern Fire burned 513 acres. Both of the wildfires were along Coalinga Road, one east of Bitterwater and the other near Airline Highway.

Those fires started around the same time as the 64-acre Panoche Fire in the 20000 block of Panoche Road that is believed to have sparked with a camping trailer fire, which resulted in the deaths of a 27-year-old woman, her 3-year-old and her 8-month-old child.

-Kollin Kosmicki

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