DAMAGE ASSESSED FROM PIRU BLAZE.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet. - As flames continued to burn deeper into the Los Padres National Forest on Thursday, a damage assessment team followed in the blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. wilderness trying to determine the extent of loss. Three homes and four outbuildings are listed as destroyed, but U.S. Forest Service officials aren't sure whether those structures were inhabited. No victims have come forward, Forest Service spokesman Ed Linquist said. ``One of those structures was an old forestry ranger Ranger Any of a series of unmanned probes launched from 1961 to 1965 by NASA. The project was NASA's earliest attempt to explore the Moon's surface. Ranger 4 (1962) became the first U.S. spacecraft to hit the Moon, crash-landing on its surface as planned. station that had been abandoned several years ago,'' Linquist said. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if anyone was living there. This team, they're moving through - if there's a mobile home destroyed, was it used to store things, or was there a resident there? If there's a log cabin log cabin or log house, style of home typical of the American pioneer on the Western frontier of the United States in the great westward expansion after 1765. It was constructed with few tools, usually an axe or an adz and an auger. back in the wilderness, they walk the foundation. If there are knives and forks and spoons and screwdrivers and wrenches, someone lived there.'' The damage is in the isolated forest community of Oak Flat. Cabins and such dot the forested landscape, few and far between, Linquist said. The Piru Fire started Oct. 23 near Piru Canyon Road, and during the height of the past week's hazardous conditions it threatened hundreds of homes in Fillmore and Piru. Thursday, the fire was 30 percent contained, but continued to burn to the northwest. The terrain is rough and aircraft aren't available to the team of firefighters, but the cooler weather is helping somewhat, Linquist said. Just in case, firebreaks are being bulldozed well ahead of the blaze to protect the city of Santa Paula Santa Paula (săn`tə pôl`ə), city (1990 pop. 25,062), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Santa Clara River in a fertile valley that yields citrus fruits, avocados, vegetables, flowers, nursery products, and walnuts; laid out 1875, inc. and the rustic Ojai area. ``People in Ojai are always concerned when there's fire, but it's not a worry from our perspective,'' he said. ``That's not to say things couldn't change immediately.'' |
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